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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Main Author: Vardit Lightstone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies/York University Libraries 2020-06-01
Series:Canadian Jewish Studies
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Online Access:https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40165