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June 17, 2011
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Source: Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies
Canadian Literature: Mordecai Richler (Winter 2010)

Canadian Literature: Mordecai Richler (Winter 2010)

This special issue on Mordecai Richler features articles by Melina Baum Singer, Brian Johnson, Glenn Deer, Krzysztof Majer, David Brauner, Robin Nobel, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews. In the years immediately following his death, it seemed understandably difficult for commentators to separate the man from his work. During "The Richler Challenge," a conference hosted by McGill's Institute for the Study of Canada in 2004, speakers found themselves "missing" him, "remembering when," or laughing outright at Richler's wit and warmth.

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The Joyful Child

Author Reading of The Joyful Child

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

In his third novel, Norman Ravvin writes about a father and his young son, and the companionship they develop at home and on the road. Returning to the wanderlust of his travelogue Hidden Canada, Ravvin follows the interconnections of urban living, the experience of travel and abandonment, and a man's love of neighbourhoods, of jazz and old cars. Norman Ravvin's story collection Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish won the K.M. Hunter Emerging Artist Award. His novel Café des Westens won the Alberta Multiculturalism New Fiction Award. He is also the author of Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue and the editor of Not Quite Mainstream: Canadian Jewish Short Stories.

Program sponsored by the Concordia University for Canadian Jewish Studies with support from the Alliance Israélite Universelle, and with co-operation from ALEPH - Centre d'Études Juives Contemporaines.


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