Pierre Anctil: Jacob-Isaac Segal 1896-1954, A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu

Dates: June 9, 2013 to June 9, 2013
Location: Beth David Synagogue
Join historian and author Pierre Anctil for the Toronto launch of his new book Jacob-Isaac Segal 1896-1954: Un pote yiddish de Montral et son milieu (A Montreal Yiddish poet and his milieu), winner of the 2013 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in Yiddish Literature. Anctils talk will be in English and will feature special poem readings in English by J.I. Segal great-grandson Mattan Lustgarten, in French by Chantal Ringuet, and in Yiddish by Eileen Thalenberg. The great Montreal poet J. I. Segal arrived in Montreal in 1910 where he earned a reputation as an important Yiddish poet both in Canada and abroad. In his book, Anctil not only traces Segals development as a poet during the great wave of Jewish immigration from Russia, the Ukraine and Poland at the beginning of the 20th century, but also introduces the reader to Segals literary work through previously unpublished translations into French. Presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts together with the Committee for Yiddish and as part of the Toronto Jewish Literary Festival, June 1-9, various venues around the GTA.

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