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Literary Essays and Reviews

Collected Works of A.M. Klein
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1987

About this book

The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing.

Author / Editor information

Klein A.M. :

A.M. Klein (1909-1972) was a Canadian poet and writer.

Caplan Usher :

Usher Caplan is an editor at the National Gallery of Canada.

Steinberg M.W. :

M.W. Steinberg was a professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

    v
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    Introduction

    xi
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    Acknowledgments

    xxv
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    Biographical Chronology

    xxvii
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  • 1. Jewish Literature And Culture
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    Koheleth. Review Of Koheleth: The Man And The Book

    3
    Judah L. Zlotnik
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    Baal Shem In Modern Dress. Review Of Lyric

    6
    J.I. Segal
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    White Magic. Review Of The Zohar In Moslem And Christian Spain

    10
    Ariel Bension
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    Chaim Nachman Bialik

    13
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    Music Hath Charm. Review Of Jewish Music And Other Essays On Musical Topics

    19
    Israel Rabinovitch
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    The Art Of The Passover Haggadah

    23
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    The Last Of The Badchanim - Shloime Shmulevitz

    26
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    Saadyah Gaon

    29
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    Bialik Thou Shouldst Be Living At This Hour

    32
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    Saul Tchernichovsky

    36
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    The Thirteenth Apostle?

    37
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    Palestine Moving-Pictures

    40
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    Had Not Thy Torah Been My Delight ... Review Of From The Nazi Vale Of Tears

    41
    Pinchos Hirshprung
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    Some Praise The Lord - Some Pass The Ammunition. Review Of The Sabbath Prayer Book Published By The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation

    42
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    The Snows Of Yesteryear. Review Of My Lexicon

    46
    Melech Ravitch
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    The Poetry Which Is Prayer. Review Of Líder Un Loiben

    49
    J.I. Segal
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    An Encyclopedic Work. Review Of The Mishna

    52
    Symcha Petrushka
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    'Apples Of Gold In Pictures Of Silver' Review Of Milan Dikduki ('Lexicon Of Hebrew Homonyms')

    54
    Solomon Klonitzki-Kline
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    The Snows Of Yesteryear. Review Of Burning Lights

    57
    Bella Chagall
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    Look On This Picture And On This ... Review Of A Palestine Picture Book And Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record

    60
    Jacob Rosner, Alfred Bernheim and Roman Vishniac
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    Only Half the Language of Faith. Review of The Language of Faith: Selected Jewish Prayers

    63
    Nahum N. Glatzer
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    Baedeker: Kasrilevke. Review of Inside Kasrilevke

    67
    Isidore Goldstick and Sholom Aleichem
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    The Dybbuk. Text of a Trans-Canada Radio Talk

    70
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    A Chassidic Anthology. Review of Tales of the Hasidim: The Later Masters

    74
    Martin Buber
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    Melech Grafstein's Sholom Aleichem. Review of A Sholom Aleichem Panorama

    77
    Melech Grafstein
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    Poet of a World Passed By. Review of Sefer Yiddish

    79
    J.I. Segal
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    The Art of Hertz Grosbard

    81
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    Poems of Yehoash. Review of Poems of Yehoash

    83
    Isidore Goldstick and Evlin Yehoash Dworkin
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    Of Hebrew. Calligraphy Review of The Israel Art Haggadah

    85
    Jacob Zim
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    In Memoriam: J.I. Segal

    87
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  • 2. Jewish Folk Culture
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    Jewish Folk-Songs

    93
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    Of Hebrew Humor

    99
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    On Translating the Yiddish Folk-Song

    109
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    The Yiddish Proverb

    112
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  • 3. The Bible
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    The Bible as Literature

    125
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    The Gesture of the Bible

    131
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    The Bible Manuscripts

    133
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    The Bible's Archetypical Poet

    143
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  • 4. Literature And The Arts
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    From The McGill Daily

    151
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    Proletarian Poetry

    161
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    National Anthems

    163
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    Queen Mab and Mickey Mouse

    166
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    Annotation on Shapiro's Essay on Rime

    169
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    A Definition of Poetry? A Reply to a Request

    177
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    Sha! Sha! Shostakovitch!

    181
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    Marginalia

    182
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    Book Reviewing, in Seven Easy Lessons

    193
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    The Usurper

    195
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    In Memoriam: Alexander Bercovitch

    198
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    The Case of Jascha Heifetz

    199
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  • 5. Canadian Literature
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    Mortal Coils. Review Of The Shrouding

    203
    Leo Kennedy
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    The Decencies Had Perished With The Stukas'. Review Of Dunkirk

    205
    E.J. Pratt
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    The Poetry Of A.J.M. Smith. Review Of News Of The Phoenix

    209
    A.J.M. Smith
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    New Writers Series, No. 1. Review Of Here And Now

    212
    Irving Layton
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    Writing In Canada. A Reply To A Questionnaire

    216
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  • 6. American, European, And English Literature
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    A Curse on Columbus. Review of Jews Without Money

    225
    Michael Gold
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    The Jew in English Poetry

    226
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    Robinson Jeffers - Poet-Fascist? Review of Be Angry at the Sun

    232
    Robinson Jeffers
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    Is This the Jew the Authors Drew?

    235
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    The Heart of Europe. Review of Heart of Europe

    238
    Klaus Mann and Hermann Kesten
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    Maimonides in Hollywood. Review of A Guide for the Bedevilled

    241
    Ben Hecht
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    Grand Invective. Review of The Tempering of Russia

    244
    Ilya Ehrenburg
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    Those Who Should Have Been Ours

    246
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    Rilke and His Translators. Review of Thirty-one Poems

    251
    Rainer Maria Rilke and Ludwig Lewisohn
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    Departure and Arrival Review of Thieves in the Night

    255
    Arthur Koestler
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    Knut Hamsun

    258
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    Isaak Babel Review of Benya Krik, the Gangster, and Other Stories

    259
    Isaak Babel
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    That Rank Picture

    262
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    Cantabile. Review of The Cantos of Ezra Pound

    264
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    Of Jewish Existentialism. Review of Antisémite and Jew

    266
    Jean-Paul Sartre
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    T.S. Eliot and the Nobel Prize

    268
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    Hemlock and Marijuana. Review of In the Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces

    275
    Franz Kafka
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    Old Ez and His Blankets

    278
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    The Masked Yeats Review of Yeats: The Man and the Masks, The Golden Nightingale and The Permanence of Yeats

    282
    Richard Ellmann, Donald Stauffer, James Hall and Martin Steinmann
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    Homage to Ludwig Lewisohn

    284
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  • 7. James Joyce's Ulysses
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    The Oxen of the Sun

    289
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    The Black Panther. A Study in Technique

    326
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    A Shout in the Street. An Analysis of the Second Chapter of Joyce's Ulysses

    342
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    Textual Notes and Emendations

    367
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    Notes

    377
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    Index

    415
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December 15, 1987
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9781487589325
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https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487589325
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