Open AccessThe Keneder Adler and Yiddish community life in Montreal, 1944
Author(s) -
Rebecca Margolis
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian jewish studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-0925
pISSN - 1198-3493
DOI - 10.25071/1916-0925.40107
Subject(s) - memoir , judaism , nazism , newspaper , yiddish , the holocaust , refugee , art , sociology , media studies , history , art history , religious studies , political science , law , german , philosophy , archaeology
Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung became a towering figure in the Montreal Jewish community during a time when Yiddish functioned as the Jewish lingua franca. In 1944, The Keneder Adler both serialized his memoir, Fun Natsishen Yomertol: Zikhroynes fun a Polit (From the Nazi Vale of Tears: Memoirs of a Refugee) and printed it in book form. This study offers a snapshot of this rapidly changing community of 1944 through a close study of its newspaper, The Keneder Adler, including coverage of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, community responses, and new local community educational initiatives.