Browsing Literature by Subject "Canada"

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  • A.M. Klein 
    Pollock, Zaillig; University of Toronto and University of Toronto Libraries; Klein, A.M. (University of Toronto Libraries, 2000)
    This is the entry for A.M. Klein in Canadian Poetry Online, a web site of the University of Toronto Libraries. It contains a biography, bibliographies, and a selection of his poems. Click on the link above to access.
  • Adele Wiseman 
    Brown, Michael (Jewish Women's Archive, 2009-02-27)
    A biographical essay on Adele Wiseman, whom the author credits as being "[o]ne of Canada’s most highly regarded writers of the second half of the twentieth century." The article describes how Wiseman, who was born in 1928 ...
  • The Adventures of Augie March 
    Bellow, Saul (Viking Press, 1953)
    A well-known book by Saul Bellow. Click on the first link above to see the listing for this book in WorldCat. Type in your zip or postal code under Find a copy in the library to locate the book in a nearby library. Click ...
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 
    Richler, Mordecai (Penguin Books, 2005)
    A well-known novel by Mordechai Richler. Click on the link to see the entry for it in WorldCat. To find it in a library near you, type your zip or postal code under the heading Find a copy in the library.
  • Canadian Literature 
    Jewish Virtual Library (Jewish Virtual Library, 2018)
    A brief history of Jewish Canadian literature. Click on the link above to access the article.
  • Daring reads by the first generation of Canadian Jewish women writers 
    Panofsky, Ruth (The Conversation, 2020-12-21)
    "Readers will know the poet Irving Layton...as well as novelist Mordecai Richler and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, all of them Montréalers. But you may not know the women who published poems and prose alongside their ...
  • Hallelujah 
    Cohen, Leonard (YouTube, 2009-10-02)
    A live performance of perhaps the most famous of Leonard Cohen's songs. Click on the link above to access.
  • ‘Hallelujah’ Review: From Leonard Cohen to Cale to Buckley to Shrek: A new documentary tells the entwined stories of a songwriter and his best-known composition 
    Scott, A.O. (New York Times, 2022-07-01)
    This is New York Times film reviewer, A.O. Scott's Critics Pick of the biographical documentary, "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song." The directors, Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine trace the seven-year development ...
  • Irving Layton 
    IrvingLayton.ca (IrvingLayton.ca, 2012)
    The official Irving Layton website maintained by his Estate. Irving Layton was an important twentieth century Jewish Canadian poet. Included in this web site are a biography and a bibliography of his works. Click on the ...
  • Irving Layton: Biography 
    Jacobs, T. (2001-05)
    A biographical essay detailing the life of the Jewish Canadian Poet, Irving Layton, to whom Leaonard Cohen dedicated his book of verse, Book of Longing. Click on the link above to access the essay.
  • Leonard Cohen Biography.com 
    Biography.com (A&E Television Networks, 2016-11-17)
    A brief biography of Leonard Cohen. Click on the link above to access the biography.
  • Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker 
    Remnick, David (The New Yorker, 2016-10-17)
    A biographical essay about Leonard Cohen, focusing on his last album, "Make It Darker." Click on the link above to access the article.
  • Leonard Cohen: Poems 
    Cohen, Leonard (Jarkko Arjatsalo, 1995)
    A selection of poems by Leonard Cohen. Click on the link to access the page.
  • Mordecai Richler 
    Foran, Charles (Canadian Encyclopedia, 2015-03-04)
    Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia about the writer, Moredcai Richler. Click on the link to access the article.
  • Mordecai Richler Speaks and Reads from his Work Parts 1 and 2 with N. Wilichincsky and Ruth Wisse 
    Richler, Mordecai (Jewish Public Library of Montreal, 1969-03-16)
    Recording in two parts of a reading by Mordecai Richler at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal of his work, then in progress, provisionally entitled, "The Horseman of St. Urbain Street." The book was published in 1971 ...
  • Mordecai Richler: Prized Author Who Didn't Care Who He Offended 
    Arnold, Janice (CJN: Canadian Jewish News, 2017-08-16)
    Written on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Canada, this essay considers the life, work and political attitudes of Mordecai Richler about the separatist movement in Quebec. Click on the link to read the article.
  • Moredai Richler's Montreal 
    Griffiths, Sian (The Guardian, 2011-01-11)
    An essay in The Guardian about Montreal as it was when Mordecai Richler grew up there. He wrote about the Jewish immigrant experience in Montreal. Click on the link to access the article.
  • Nevermind 
    Cohen, Leonard (YouTube, 2014-09-23)
    The version of Nevermind on the album Popular Problems. Click on the link above to access the YouTube video.
  • Quietly Weeping, Autumn and Alef-Bet [three poems] 
    Shtern, Sholem (1984)
    These three poems by the Jewish Canadian poet Sholem Shtern (here spelled "Shalom Stern") are from "a translation of: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Shebreshin (Book of memory to the Jewish community of Shebreshin), Editors: ...
  • Ruth R. Wisse 
    Roskies, David G. (Jewish Women's Archive, 2009-02-27)
    A short biography of the life and accomplishments of the Canadian American Jewish scholar, Ruth Wisse, who co-founded the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. Click on the link above to read the biography.

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