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Book Review: A ‘Yiddish cultural tragedy’ in Winnipeg’s North End

Book Review: A ‘Yiddish cultural tragedy’ in Winnipeg’s North End

By Rubin Friedman

Shot Rock

By Michael Tregebov

New Star Books

220 pages

Shot Rock, Michael Tregebov’s new novel is a kind of Yiddish cultural tragedy. It deals with inevitable change as people age and find thems…

Book Review: ‘The deaf don’t believe in silence’

Book Review: ‘The deaf don’t believe in silence’

By Murray Citron

Deaf Republic: Poems

By Ilya Kaminsky

Graywolf Press

76 pages

 

Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa in 1977 to a Jewish family. He lost most of his hearing at the age of four from mumps and inadequate medical treatm…

Book Review: ‘Pragmatic progressivism and politics as art of the possible'

“A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism” by Adam Gopnik.

Music: A klezmer musical and songs from under the Ontario moon

Music: A klezmer musical and songs from under the Ontario moon

By Michael Regenstreif, Editor

Ben Caplan

Old Stock

Rhyme & Reason Records

www.bencaplan.ca

One of the most magnificent productions I’ve seen in recent years was “Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story,” a play co-created …