LEADER 04525nam 2200769 450 001 9910780425903321 005 20230422050022.0 010 $a1-282-03725-0 010 $a9786612037252 010 $a1-4426-8232-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442682320 035 $a(CKB)2420000000004488 035 $a(EBL)4672158 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000309082 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11233181 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309082 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10259667 035 $a(PQKB)10292885 035 $a(DE-B1597)465036 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946682 035 $a(OCoLC)944177367 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442682320 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672158 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257838 035 $a(OCoLC)958579728 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/svcfb5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672158 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000004488 100 $a20160922h20002000 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe second scroll /$fA. M. Klein ; edited by Elizabeth Popham and Zailig Pollock 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2000. 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 0 $aCollected works of A. M. Klein 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4426-1497-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tEDITORIAL PROCEDURES -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tBIOGRAPHICAL CHRONOLOGY -- $tTHE SECOND SCROLL -- $tGLOSS ALEPH: Autobiographical -- $tGLOSS BETH: Elegy -- $tGLOSS GIMEL: Excerpt from Letter: 'On First Seeing the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel' -- $tGLOSS DALID: The Three Judgments -- $tGLOSS HAI -- $tFOR THE DAY: Psalm the Thirtieth -- $tABBREVIATIONS -- $tTEXTUAL NOTES -- $tEXPLANATORY NOTES -- $tAPPENDIX A: Selections from 'Notebook of a Journey' -- $tAPPENDIX B: Transcription of Speech on Trip to Israel [24 October 1949]; Manuscript Notes for Speaking Engagements -- $tAPPENDIX C: Memorandum on Trip to Israel 330 $aThe Second Scroll, the only novel by poet A.M. Klein, is an ambitious and complex work that interlaces prose, poetry, drama, and commentary. The narrative follows a Canadian Jew to the newly established state of Israel on a double mission - to collect the emerging national literature and to search for his Uncle Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor. Klein creates a modern Torah out of the uncle's crises of faith as he attempts to come to terms with the atrocities of the Second World War. The five chapters of The Second Scroll mirror the books of the Pentateuch (the 'first scroll') and the language is rich with biblical, talmudic, kabbalistic, and literary allusions as both the narrator and his uncle wrestle with the meaning of Jewish identity, messianic faith, and homecoming.Popham and Pollock's scholarly edition re-creates the feel of the Knopf publication of 1951-now a collector's item-but restores the text to Klein's original vision. This includes echoing the architectural structure of the Sistine Chapel in the physical layout of 'Gloss Gimel,' Klein's powerful commentary on Michelangelo's famous ceiling. Extensive annotations, and appendices that cross-reference the finished book to the raw material gathered during the author's trip to Israel and to the fund-raising speeches he delivered on his return, give the reader access to the process by which the novel took shape. A significant addition to UTP's Collected Works of A.M. Klein, and of interest not only to Klein scholars, The Second Scroll marks the inception of Holocaust literature and holds a central place in the Canadian literary canon. 606 $aJudaism$vLiterary collections 606 $aJews$vLiterary collections 606 $aCanadians$zIsrael$vFiction 606 $aHolocaust survivors$vFiction 606 $aJews$zCanada$vFiction 606 $aUncles$vFiction 607 $aIsrael$vFiction 615 0$aJudaism 615 0$aJews 615 0$aCanadians 615 0$aHolocaust survivors 615 0$aJews 615 0$aUncles 676 $a813.52 700 $aKlein$b A. M$g(Abraham Moses),$f1909-1972,$01467700 702 $aPopham$b Elizabeth A. 702 $aPollock$b Zailig 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780425903321 996 $aThe second scroll$93678478 997 $aUNINA