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Poet George Ellenbogen's memoir is more than a collection of anecdotes of his immigrant family and their journey from Franz Joseph's Austro-Hungarian empire to Montreal in the 1920s. This book charts his discovery of how an immigrant Jewish neighbourhood -- a tight-knit shtetl with extended families that had its own shops, institutions, and daily Yiddish newspapers -- sustained him and his family as well as thousands of others. The revelations...

With illustrations and text spanning 230 years, 'Lasting Impressions' chronicles the history of English-language publishing in Quebec.

A bevy of colorful characters cross paths with each other in this novel about Montreal's garment district and its Orthodox Jewish community. If there is one thing Gershon Stein, the rent collector, knows it's that life is rented and everyone has a debt to pay: to their landlord, their family, their community, and--most of all--to their soul.

Collecting the works of 50 modern Canadian poets, this anthology of verse points to an emerging openness toward form in the nation's poetry. The book includes nearly 200 poems from more than 20 presses and an essay that describes and explains the innovations of form that distinguish the featured writers.

A disturbing tale of identity and deception set in 1950s Toronto. That Rafe Jonason's life didn't end when he smashed up his car was something of a miracle, on that everyone agreed. However, the devoted husband and pillar of the community emerges from hospital a very different man. Coarse and intolerant, this new Rafe drinks away his days, showing no interest in returning to work. Worst of all, he doesn't appear to recognize or so much as reme...

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Marcel Trudel influenced a generation of French-Canadian historians. He always strove for intellectual freedom, sometimes scandalizing the French-Canadian religious and academic establishment. In 1960 he shocked readers when he revealed the prevalence of slavery in New France and later explored the life of Chiniquy, the Catholic priest who became a Protestant pastor. Although now widely admired in English and French Canada, Trudel's uncompromi...

Fixing its gaze on writers as they are seldom seen, this anthology of photographs and accompanying stories provides an intriguing exploration into the personal and professional lives of various artists. This series of narratives delves inside the lives of its subjects, as well as the process of making portraits, before finishing with a touch of refined literary gossip. Based on a decade of research, this study takes a remarkable tour from the ...

From crushing grapes to bottling wine, this essential handbook enables the home winemaker to make informed decisions about ingredients, equipment, and the winemaking process. Precise step-by-step instructions lead both novice and advanced winemakers through all of the important procedures, including selecting and working with new equipment, determining the best material for specific styles, analyzing the product, monitoring acidity levels, and...

Providing day-by-day instructions for novice winemakers, this guide takes the guesswork out of using kits and concentrates for producing high-quality wine at home. Covering everything the hobbyist vintner needs to know about the winemaking process, this informative handbook discusses the different kinds of winemaking kits that are on the market, presents solutions to the most common problems experienced by kit winemakers with tips on how to av...

Celebrating a voice that displays a light touch while dealing with difficult and dark subjects, this dynamic collection gathers works from 35 years of poetry. Whether describing the autobiographical topic of divorce or the political issues of the Holocaust, each piece is distinguished by moral boldness and humane wisdom.

Opening with a rapid-fire disquisition on lying and ending with the poet's award-winning meditation on a craftsman's workshop, this collection of exquisitely crafted poems reveals that things are never what they seem. Suffused with vivid imagination that shakes up everyday details and settings, this debut constantly tests the claims of authenticity over artifice.

Drawing from contemporary and traditional texts and music, this is a moving and uplifting guide to commemorating Yom Hashoah--Holocaust Remembrance Day. Enabling the growing audience of individuals, families, schools, and community groups to create new symbols in order to cope with this historic loss, this study illustrates the significance behind each part of the ritual, illuminating the rising worldwide movement among Jewish, Christian, inte...

Presented in its original pocketbook format, this entertaining account documents the 1950s nightlife of Canada's second largest city. Based on the original chronicle from the era, this overview's spirited prose complements a vast collection of archival photographs, vividly depicting the people and places of Montreal's underbelly. From glamorous cabarets and lush restaurants to late-night bars and memorable characters, this exploration demonstr...

These evocative poems move from the icon of Alice in Wonderland to the imagined figure of Alice out of Wonderland--on a Vancouver beach with the poet, underground with Persephone, in Memphis with Elvis. But first they explore the life of the real Alice Liddell (1852-1934), who sat still for Charles Dodgson's camera and inspired the Alice books that prompted his rise to fame as Lewis Carroll. In this powerful sequence, the emotional life of Ali...

For nine years Andrew Steinmetz worked as a ward clerk in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department of a major hospital. Wardlife is a series of riveting prose vignettes--intensely observed moments drawn from diaries kept during the nine years he spent as a ward clerk. With character sketches, dialogues, and brief meditations on subjects ranging from the language of poetry to the language of medicine, Wardlife records the hospital exper...

These are quirky and addictive stories whose characters encounter their spiritual selves through cross-cultural displacement, whether by travel to another country or continent or because of an encounter with a foreigner whose cultural and psychic make-up is totally alien.

The works of Pan Bouyoucas, Margaret Christakos, and Stavros Tsimicalis, among others, are included in this anthology of vibrant Greek-Canadian writing, featuring distinctive voices in experimental fiction, traditional storytelling, and poetry.

In the late sixties, in a comfortable Calcutta neighborhood, the restless sons and daughters of the well-to-do mix with activists and characters who carry the seeds of Calcutta's legendary social unrest. Their political activity takes place in the carnival atmosphere of the city's streets and markets until a bloody political clash turns them into adults before their time.Rana Bose sets his first novel in his native Calcutta, Houston, and Montr...

This revised edition of a landmark collection of poems nominated for the 1984 Governor General's Award for Poetry showcases the exhilarating work of a unique Canadian literary talent.