Becoming Canadian: Folk Literary Innovation in the Memoirs of Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants to Canada
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...
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| Language: | English |
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The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies/York University Libraries
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Canadian Jewish Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40165 |