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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781905303321

Autore

Ziper Yaʻaḳov

Titolo

The journals of Yaacov Zipper, 1950-1982 [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for Yiddishkeit / / translated from the Yiddish and edited by Mervin Butovsky and Ode Garfinkle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-86157-3

9786612861574

0-7735-7155-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

971.4/28004924/0092

B

Soggetti

Jews - Québec (Province) - Montréal

Jews - Québec (Province) - Montréal - Intellectual life - 20th century

Montréal (Québec) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Illustrations""; ""Family Tree""; ""THE JOURNALS""; ""1950-1959""; ""1960-1969""; ""1970-1979""; ""1980-1982""; ""Epilogue: The Final Journey""; ""Appendix""; ""Glossary""; ""HEBREW AND YIDDISH TERMS""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""G""; ""H""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""ORGANIZATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND PLACE NAMES""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""T""; ""U""; ""Y""; ""Z""

""INDIVIDUALS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT""""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

A writer, lecturer, and community activist, Zipper was principal of the Jewish Peretz School from the 1920s until his death. His life was dedicated to keeping both the Yiddish language and the school alive - and every day of his existence, according to his journals, was a struggle



to achieve those goals. While written as a personal diary, in truth this is the story of the sad but inevitable death of Yiddish Montreal.