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Hungry
I Books is a publishing arm of the Institute for
Canadian Jewish Studies. It publishes a range
of books, from full-scale scholarly editions,
such as the edited volume Afterimage: Evocations
of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts
and Literature, to a chapbook series dedicated
to new Canadian Jewish writing.
The first title in this series The Little Underworld
of Edison Wiese, is the short story by Toronto
writer Cary Fagan, whose work has been published
in the United States and in German translation,
and who has won numerous prizes for his fiction
in Canada. This edition is printed by Gaspereau
Press and honours the good old verities of independent
publishing in Canada. Some further information
on the chapbook series be found on the welcome
page under publication programs.
Blessings: Art and Essays on Jewish Blessings
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Chapbook No. 5 in the HUNGRY I BOOKS Canadian Jewish Studies Chapbook Series
HUNGRY I BOOKS
$15.95 CAN / US
ISBN: 9780889474703 |
This catalogue contains artwork, two curatorial studies and scholarly essays from exhibitions and a symposium mounted by Loren Lerner at Montreal's Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom. Artists under discussion include Marcel Braitstein, Sylvia Safdie, Marion Wagschal, Devora Neumark, Sorel Cohen and Rita Briansky. The volume includes an introduction by Loren Lerner, Chair, Dept. of Fine Arts, Concordia University, and essays by Rabbis Howard Joseph and Leigh Lerner, Norma Joseph and Norman Ravvin. Artists' illustrations in colour. The curatorial essays discuss both the artists and the Judaica collection in the Temple's Aron Museum.
Book Orders
Copies can be purchased by mailing a cheque for $15.95 to Hungry I Books, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., SB-215, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8. Cheques should be made payable to: Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.
Copies are also for sale at the Concordia University Bookstore, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal or on their online store:
http://web2.concordia.ca/Bookstore/generalbooks.faculty.shtml
Josephine the Singer or The Nation of the Mice, Franz Kafka
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Chapbook No. 4 in the HUNGRY I BOOKS Canadian Jewish Studies Chapbook Series
Hungry I Books
$12.95 CAN / US
ISBN: 9780889474710 |
A new translation of Franz Kafka's “Josephine the Singer or The Nation of the Mice” by Karin Doerr, Barbara Galli and Gary Evans. This volume also includes a new afterword by Karin Doerr focusing on the story's relevance to Kafka's Jewish identity and Prague during his lifetime. This is the fourth book in a Canadian Jewish Studies Chapbook Series published by Hungry I Books, a publishing arm of the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University.
Book Orders
Copies can be purchased by mailing a cheque for $12.95 to Hungry I Books, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., SB-215, Montreal, QC, H3G 1M8. Cheques should be made payable to: Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.
Copies are also for sale at the Concordia University Bookstore, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal or on their online store:
http://web2.concordia.ca/Bookstore/generalbooks.faculty.shtml
Shuln and Shulelach: Large and Small Synagogues in Montreal and Europe
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Chapbook No. 3 in the HUNGRY I BOOKS Canadian Jewish Studies Chapbook Series
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This chapbook focuses on a range of subjects, which include synagogue architecture, the development of Montreal's communal infrastructure, as well as the changes that affected devotional life in the city leading up to and after World War Two.
Sara Tauben has used as her focal points three booklets published by downtown synagogues in order to see how the institutions viewed themselves at particular times in their history. To do so, she pays attention to contributions by leading rabbis, to strategies for survival, some of which are portrayed in Yiddish texts, which she translates.
The outcome is a document that increases our awareness of the shifts that took place as communal life broke along old world-new world lines.
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Opening The Star: Three Responses
to the New Translation of Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption
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A
New Publication : Chapbook No. 2. in the HUNGRY
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$10.00 CAN / US
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This chapbook is a collection
of papers that were presented in a Panel Discussion
at the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies to
celebrate the new translation of Franz Rosenzweig’s
The Star of Redemption. At the “Opening
of the Star” event, the translator Barbara
E. Galli and the authors of two introductory pieces
included with the translation, Elliott R. Wolfson
and Michael Oppenheim, offered brief tributes
to Rosenzweig’s book.
The papers in the chapbook are entitled: “Translation
and the Labour-of-the-Heart” by Elliot R.
Wolfson; “A Note on Temptation” by
Michael Oppenheim; and “Rosenzweig’s
All, Kabbalistically Reflected” by Barbara
E. Galli.
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The Jews in Canada
(In North America)
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Chapbook
No.1 in the HUNGRY I BOOKS Canadian Jewish Studies
Chapbook Series.
Introduced and
translated by Dr. Ira Robinson
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Introduced
and translated by Dr. Ira Robinson of the Concordia
University Religion Department, this document
is an early Hebrew-language portrait, published
in Russia, portraying Montreal Jewish life in
the late 1800s. Entitled The Jews in Canada
(In North America) and written by Y.E.Bernstein,
the document details religious, educational, social
and political concerns that were relevant in the
late nineteenth century. The author is particularly
interested in the role of Zionism and anti-Semitism
in Jewish life.
Dr. Ira Robinson
also provides an informative introduction, which
situates the author and contextualizes the period
in which Bernstein wrote. Historical photographs,
as well as a reproduction of the original Hebrew
text illustrate the chapbook. This publication
initiates an ongoing series devoted to the publication
of translations, documents, and scholarly essays
on Canadian Jewish history. Although the Institute's
other publications are for sale, this one is available
free of charge to interested readers, scholars
and institutions.
For further
information or to receive a chapbook; please contact
the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.
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The
Little Underworld of Edison Wiese
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Author: Cary Fagan
ISBN: 0-88947-413-3
Price: CAN $9.95 |
A waiter
who aspires to greatness must make it the sole
occupation of his life. We are here to be minor
players in the dramas of others, not to dwell
on our own. It is a sacrifice, but worth everything
to make.
Edison Wiese's
thoughts are evidence of his romantic delusions.
Working in a café in an underground mall
beneath a sixty-three story building, he dreams
of making a difference in the lives of his hurrying
customers. But one New Year's Eve, his café
becomes the last refuge for those with nowhere
else to go. And for a brief moment, it seems that
something extraordinary might happen.
This is the
first title in a series devoted to Canadian Jewish
writing, published by Hungry I Books
44 pages
Published by: Hungry I Books
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 8760
E-mail: hungryibooks@hotmail.com
Mail: 1590 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Room 215, Montreal,
QC, H3G 1C5.
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Afterimage : Evocations
of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts
and Literature
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Edited by Loren Lerner
SBN 0-88947-390-0
CAN/USA $30.00 |
Afterimage:
Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary
Canadian Arts grew out of the exhibition
and conference held at the Montreal Holocaust
Memorial Centre. The publication consists of
two parts. The first considers the exhibition
Afterimage, which included works inspired by
memories of the Shoah as expressed through the
personal voices of women artists who were born
near the end or after World War II, and were
affected by the war and the Holocaust. The artists
include are Sorel Cohen, Katja Macleod Kessin,
Mindy Yan Miller, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Wendy
Oberlander, Sylvia Safdie, Yvonne Singer, and
Marion Wagschal.
The second
part of the publication is a collection of essays
and creative writings. Visual and performing
artists, creative writers and cultural historians
were invited to the conference to consider the
impact of the Holocaust on recent Canadian art
and literature. The diversity of the presentations,
which included scholarly papers, video screenings
and literary readings, is reflected in these
artistic, academic, and personal writings. The
authors are Doug Beardsley, Lisa Marielle Bleyer,
Irena Eisler, Tibor Egervari, Gary Evans, Linda
Rimer, Reesa Greenberg, Katja MacLeod Kessin,
Loren Lerner, Bernard Lévy, Claudine
Majzels, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Norman Ravvin,
Régine Robin, Yvonne Singer, Judith Thompson,
and Belarie Zatzman.
Afterimage
is the first book of its kind to consider Holocaust
Studies with a Canadian focus on arts and literature.
Loren Lerner
is Associate Professor in the Department of
Art History at, Concordia
University.
269 pages
Available through Hungry
I Books
E-mail: hungryibooks@hotmail.com
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