Becoming Canadian: Folk Literary Innovation in the Memoirs of Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants to Canada
| Autor: | Vardit Lightstone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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lcsh:Language and Literature
History media_common.quotation_subject Judaism Immigration lcsh:HM401-1281 Aerospace Engineering 060104 history Yiddish literature 0601 history and archaeology Narrative autobiography lcsh:BM1-990 media_common 060102 archaeology Folklore 06 humanities and the arts lcsh:Judaism Eastern european Jewish culture lcsh:Sociology (General) Memoir lcsh:P Ethnology Yiddish Literature |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Jewish Studies, Vol 29 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1916-0925 1198-3493 |
| DOI: | 10.25071/1916-0925.40165 |
| Popis: | This article considers the ways Yiddish-speaking immigrants to Canada creatively adapted folklore that they learned in “the old home” in order to make it fit their new Canadian contexts, and in doing so created new hybrid folklore and identities. To do this, I discuss the autobiographical texts of three people who migrated between 1900 and 1930, J.J. Goodman’s Gezamelte Shriften (Collected Writings) (Winnipeg: 1919), Michael Usiskin’s Oksn un Motorn (Oxen and Tractors) (Toronto: 1945), and Falek Zolf ’s Oyf Fremder Erd (On Foreign Soil) (Winnipeg: 1945). I argue that these personal narratives offer important insights into how the first major wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to Canada formed and expressed Canadian-Eastern European Jewish culture. |
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