Literary Essays and Reviews: Collected Works of A.M. Klein

A.M. Klein

Published by University of Toronto Press 1987

Literary Essays and Reviews

Collected Works of A.M. Klein

A.M. Klein
Edited by: Usher Caplan and M.W. Steinberg

In the series Heritage

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487589325

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
Biographical Chronology Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
1. Jewish Literature And Culture
Koheleth. Review Of Koheleth: The Man And The Book Judah L. Zlotnik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Baal Shem In Modern Dress. Review Of Lyric J.I. Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
White Magic. Review Of The Zohar In Moslem And Christian Spain Ariel Bension Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chaim Nachman Bialik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Music Hath Charm. Review Of Jewish Music And Other Essays On Musical Topics Israel Rabinovitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
The Art Of The Passover Haggadah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
The Last Of The Badchanim - Shloime Shmulevitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
Saadyah Gaon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Bialik Thou Shouldst Be Living At This Hour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Saul Tchernichovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
The Thirteenth Apostle? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Palestine Moving-Pictures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
Had Not Thy Torah Been My Delight ... Review Of From The Nazi Vale Of Tears Pinchos Hirshprung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Some Praise The Lord - Some Pass The Ammunition. Review Of The Sabbath Prayer Book Published By The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
The Snows Of Yesteryear. Review Of My Lexicon Melech Ravitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
The Poetry Which Is Prayer. Review Of Líder Un Loiben J.I. Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
An Encyclopedic Work. Review Of The Mishna Symcha Petrushka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
'Apples Of Gold In Pictures Of Silver' Review Of Milan Dikduki ('Lexicon Of Hebrew Homonyms') Solomon Klonitzki-Kline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
The Snows Of Yesteryear. Review Of Burning Lights Bella Chagall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Look On This Picture And On This ... Review Of A Palestine Picture Book And Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record Jacob Rosner, Alfred Bernheim and Roman Vishniac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Only Half the Language of Faith. Review of The Language of Faith: Selected Jewish Prayers Nahum N. Glatzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Baedeker: Kasrilevke. Review of Inside Kasrilevke Isidore Goldstick and Sholom Aleichem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
The Dybbuk. Text of a Trans-Canada Radio Talk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
A Chassidic Anthology. Review of Tales of the Hasidim: The Later Masters Martin Buber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
Melech Grafstein's Sholom Aleichem. Review of A Sholom Aleichem Panorama Melech Grafstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Poet of a World Passed By. Review of Sefer Yiddish J.I. Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
The Art of Hertz Grosbard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Poems of Yehoash. Review of Poems of Yehoash Isidore Goldstick and Evlin Yehoash Dworkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Of Hebrew. Calligraphy Review of The Israel Art Haggadah Jacob Zim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
In Memoriam: J.I. Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
2. Jewish Folk Culture
Jewish Folk-Songs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Of Hebrew Humor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
On Translating the Yiddish Folk-Song Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
The Yiddish Proverb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
3. The Bible
The Bible as Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
The Gesture of the Bible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
The Bible Manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
The Bible's Archetypical Poet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
4. Literature And The Arts
From The McGill Daily Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Proletarian Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
National Anthems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Queen Mab and Mickey Mouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Annotation on Shapiro's Essay on Rime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
A Definition of Poetry? A Reply to a Request Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Sha! Sha! Shostakovitch! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Marginalia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Book Reviewing, in Seven Easy Lessons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
The Usurper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
In Memoriam: Alexander Bercovitch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
The Case of Jascha Heifetz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
5. Canadian Literature
Mortal Coils. Review Of The Shrouding Leo Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
The Decencies Had Perished With The Stukas'. Review Of Dunkirk E.J. Pratt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
The Poetry Of A.J.M. Smith. Review Of News Of The Phoenix A.J.M. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
New Writers Series, No. 1. Review Of Here And Now Irving Layton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Writing In Canada. A Reply To A Questionnaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
6. American, European, And English Literature
A Curse on Columbus. Review of Jews Without Money Michael Gold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
The Jew in English Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Robinson Jeffers - Poet-Fascist? Review of Be Angry at the Sun Robinson Jeffers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Is This the Jew the Authors Drew? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
The Heart of Europe. Review of Heart of Europe Klaus Mann and Hermann Kesten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Maimonides in Hollywood. Review of A Guide for the Bedevilled Ben Hecht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Grand Invective. Review of The Tempering of Russia Ilya Ehrenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Those Who Should Have Been Ours Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Rilke and His Translators. Review of Thirty-one Poems Rainer Maria Rilke and Ludwig Lewisohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Departure and Arrival Review of Thieves in the Night Arthur Koestler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Knut Hamsun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Isaak Babel Review of Benya Krik, the Gangster, and Other Stories Isaak Babel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
That Rank Picture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Cantabile. Review of The Cantos of Ezra Pound Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
Of Jewish Existentialism. Review of Antisémite and Jew Jean-Paul Sartre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
T.S. Eliot and the Nobel Prize Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
Hemlock and Marijuana. Review of In the Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces Franz Kafka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Old Ez and His Blankets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
The Masked Yeats Review of Yeats: The Man and the Masks, The Golden Nightingale and The Permanence of Yeats Richard Ellmann, Donald Stauffer, James Hall and Martin Steinmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
Homage to Ludwig Lewisohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
7. James Joyce's Ulysses
The Oxen of the Sun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
The Black Panther. A Study in Technique Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
A Shout in the Street. An Analysis of the Second Chapter of Joyce's Ulysses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
Textual Notes and Emendations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 454

eBook

Published: December 15, 1987
ISBN: 9781487589325