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Jewish-Canadian Authors
This is a list of key Jewish-Canadian authors, with an article and critical history to follow. A * Irving Abella (historian) * Mona Elaine Adilman (poet) * Ted Allan (novelist, poet, screenwriter, playwright) * Barbara Amiel (journalist) * Lisa Appignanesi (journalist and novelist) B * Ben Barry (entrepreneur and author) * Saul Bellow (Canadian-born American novelist) * David Bezmozgis (novelist and short story writer) * Monique Bosco (novelist, poet, journalist) C * Leonard Cohen (poet, novelist, songwriter) * Matt Cohen (novelist) D * Cory Doctorow (science fiction writer) E * Rebecca Eckler (journalist) * Howard Engel (mystery novelist, memoirist) F * Ken Finkleman (screenwriter) * Diane Flacks (playwright) * Golda Fried (novelist, poet) * Martin Friedland (law writer) * David Frum (journalist) * Linda Frum (journalist) G * Gabriella Goliger (novelist) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical History of ancient Israel and Judah, Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Flacks
Diane Flacks is a Canadian comedic actress, screenwriter and playwright. Early life and education Flacks was raised in the Jewish faith. Her early education took place in Jewish parochial schools. Flacks studied drama at Leah Posluns Institute in Toronto. At twenty seven years old, she came out as a lesbian. Career Flacks began her acting career as a child, in a touring production of ''Cinderella'' where she played both the wicked stepmother and fairy godmother. As an adult, she has worked in Canadian and U.S. television, radio, news, and film before becoming an independent performance artist, playwright, and writer. Theater It appears that Flacks started her official career in media with theater. Flacks' early works include three one-woman stage shows that she wrote and performed herself: ''Myth Me'' (1991), ''By a Thread'' (1997), and ''Random Acts'' (1997). She co-created the Chalmers Canadian Play Award-nominated ''Theory of Relatives'' with Daniel Brooks, Leah Cher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simma Holt
Simma Holt, (née Milner, March 27, 1922 – January 23, 2015) was a Canadian journalist, author, and the first Jewish woman elected to the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Vegreville, Alberta as Simma Milner, the sixth of eight children, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with majors in English and Psychology, in 1944 from the University of Manitoba. That same year she began a 30-year career at ''The Vancouver Sun'' newspaper as a reporter, feature writer, and columnist. Journalism Her interest in journalism began as a child when the sole operator of the Vegriville Observer would welcome her observing his production of the paper. Partly due to male students at the University of Manitoba participating in the Second World War, Holt became the first female managing editor of the student newspaper ''The Manitoban'' and university correspondent for the ''Winnipeg Free Press''. On D-Day, her first day using the machine, Holt mistakenly clogged up the teletype machine at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Heilman
Anna Heilman, born Hana Wajcblum (December 1, 1928 – May 1, 2011 age 83), referred to in other sources as Hanka or Chana Weissman, was one of the surviving prisoners from Auschwitz who plotted to blow up the crematoria. She, along with her elder sister ( Estusia) and other women, smuggled gunpowder out of the Union munitions factory. They were then able to pass it from insider to insider until it reached the ''Sonderkommando''. The women involved in the gunpowder smuggling chain include Roza Robota (who had direct contact with the men of the Sonderkommando), Ala Gertner, Regina Safirsztajn, Rose Grunapfel Meth, Hadassa Zlotnicka, Marta Bindiger, Genia Fischer, and Inge Frank, among others. Early life Anna's parents, Jakub and Rebeka Wajcblum, were both deaf. She was born on December 1, 1928, into a middle-class assimilated Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland. She had two older sisters, Sabina and Estusia. All three children had normal hearing and they had a nanny when they wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Hategan
Elisa Romero Hategan known professionally as Elisa Hategan (born December 17, 1974), formerly known as Elisse Hategan, is a Romanian-Canadian antiracist activist, educator, and author. As a teenager she was a member and spokesperson for the Heritage Front, a now-defunct white supremacist organization in Canada. She broke with the group and testified against them in court, and has been credited for contributing to the organization's demise. Early life Hategan was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1974. When she was 11 years old, she emigrated to Canada with her father, joining her mother who had moved to Canada earlier. Her father returned to Romania, where he died in 1988, leaving Elisa with her mother in Toronto, where they lived in the Regent Park neighborhood. She grew up in poverty and was a victim of domestic violence. Involvement with the Heritage Front She was recruited by the Heritage Front in 1991, when she was 16 years old, after running away from home and being placed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library And Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada (LAC; french: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is the fifth largest library in the world. The LAC reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. The LAC traces its origins to the Dominion Archives, formed in 1872, and the National Library of Canada, formed in 1953. The former was later renamed as the Public Archives of Canada in 1912, and the National Archives of Canada in 1987. In 2004, the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada were merged to form Library and Archives Canada. History Predecessors The Dominion Archives was founded in 1872 as a division within the Department of Agriculture tasked with acquiring and transcribing documents related to Canadian history. In 1912, the division was transformed into an autonomous organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Yale Harrison
Charles Yale Harrison (16 June 1898 – 17 March 1954) was a Canadian-American writer and journalist, best known for his 1930 anti-war novella ''Generals Die in Bed''. Background Charles Yale Harrison was born in 1898 in Philadelphia and was raised in Montreal, Quebec, where at age 15 he wrote his first short story. Career At age sixteen took an entry-level job with the ''Montreal Star'' newspaper. Harrison's journalistic career was pre-empted, however, when he enlisted with the 244th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1917 to fight in World War I. After several months in a reserve battalion in England, Harrison transferred to the Royal Montreal Regiment and was sent to the Western Front. The climax of Harrison's war experience came on 8 August 1918 when he participated in the first day of the Battle of Amiens. Harrison was wounded in the foot and spent the rest of the war recuperating, before returning to Montreal. During the 1920s, Harrison manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Gotlieb
Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (née Bloom; May 25, 1926 July 14, 2009) was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet. Biography Born of Jewish heritage in Toronto, Gotlieb graduated from the University of Toronto with degrees in literature in 1948 (BA) and 1950 (MA). In 1961, Gotlieb published the pamphlet ''Who Knows One'', a collection of poems. Her first novel, the science-fiction tale ''Sunburst'', was published in 1964. Gotlieb won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Novel in 1982 for her novel ''A Judgement of Dragons''. The Sunburst Award is named for her first novel. Her husband was Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), a computer-science professor; they lived in Toronto, Ontario. Bibliography Science fiction books *''Sunburst''. New York: Fawcett, 1964. *''Why Should I Have All the Grief?'' Toronto: Macmillan, 1969. *''O Master Caliban!'' New York: Harper and Row, 1976. *''A Judgement of Dragons''. New York: Berkley Publishers, 1980. *''Emperor, Swords, Pentacles''. New York: Ace, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Gold
Nora Gold is a Canadian author and the founder and editor of Jewish Fiction .net. Previously, she was an associate professor of social work. Early life and education Gold grew up in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of the late Alan B. Gold, former chief justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, and Lynn Lubin Gold, a teacher of English literature at Dawson College. Gold holds a bachelor of social work from McGill University and master's degree and doctorate in social work from the University of Toronto. She received seven funded research grants, two from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and two from the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies for international Canada-Israel collaborations. Career Literary Gold's first book, ''Marrow and Other Stories'', was released in 1998 by Warwick Publishing. It received a Canadian Jewish Book Award and was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. In 2014, Dundurn Press released Gold's first novel, ''Fiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noam Gonick
Noam Gonick, (born March 20, 1973) is a Canadian filmmaker and artist.Ingrid Randoja"Gonzo Gonick" ''Now'', May 31, 2021. His films include ''Hey, Happy!'', ''Stryker'', ''Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight'' and '' To Russia with Love''. His work deals with homosexuality, social exclusion, dystopia and utopia. Background Gonick was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1970. His father, Cy Gonick, is an economist and former member of the Manitoba Legislature."Citizen raising Cain". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', February 20, 2005. Gonick graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto. He edited ''Ride, Queer, Ride'' (1997) a collection of writings on and by filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. In 2007, he was made the youngest inductee to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He has been on the board at the Plug-In Institute of the Contemporary Arts. Film and television Gonick's first film was the 1997 short ''1919'', a historically revisionist depiction of the Winnipeg General Strike from the window of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriella Goliger
Gabriella Goliger (born 1949) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was co-winner of the Journey Prize in 1997 for her short story "Maladies of the Inner Ear", and has since published three books: ''Song of Ascent'' in 2001, ''Girl Unwrapped'' in 2010, which won the Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and ''Eva Salomon's War'', which was published in 2018 and received praise from novelists Joan Thomas and Francis Itani."Biography" Gabriella Goliger Official Website, October 15, 2018. She is Jewish. Goliger also won the Prism International Award in 1993, and was a finalist for the again in 1995. She has been published in a number of journals and anthologies including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Frum
Linda Frum (born January 13, 1963) is a Canadian author and journalist, and was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 2009 until 2021. She has announced her intention to retire from the Senate effective August 27, 2021 to devote more time to other pursuits such as her role as chair of the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto. Life and career Frum was born in Toronto, Ontario, the daughter of Barbara Frum, a journalist, and Murray Frum, a real estate developer. Her brother David Frum is a political author and journalist, and was a speech writer for George W. Bush and helped coin the phrase "Axis of Evil". Another brother, Matthew Frum, was adopted and is of aboriginal ancestry. Frum attended Havergal College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University, Montreal in 1984. She has authored two books, and edited a third. The two she wrote are: ''Linda Frum's Guide to Canadian Universities'' (1987, with an updated edition published in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
