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The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate (review)

The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate (review) and Me--answers these questions. Yanofsky's does not, but nor does it claim to do so. Instead, it poses all these questions--and more. Yanofsky's Me, after all, first came to Richler as a reader; and his book--part memoir, part confession--is a disarmingly candid account of his conviction that Richler can be read through his books. Posner is a biographer; and he looks primarily to sources beyond Richler's published work for insights to Richler's life. Yanofsky is a reader: he tests Richler's comment that "it's all in the books" by using Richler's published work, together with his comments during interviews and speaking engagements, to shed light on the writer's life--Richler's and his own. The result is a conversational cultural study of the Canadian literary scene from a Montrealer's perspective, which sheds light on Richler's books and provides valuable insights into the cultural context of their production and reception. Nathalie Cooke Department of English McGill Institute for the Study of Canada The Great Latke Hamantash Debate, edited by Ruth Fredman Cernea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 216 pp. $18.00. Almost sixty years ago, the University of Chicago became the site of what has subsequently evolved into a profoundly significant intellectual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate (review)

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and Me--answers these questions. Yanofsky's does not, but nor does it claim to do so. Instead, it poses all these questions--and more. Yanofsky's Me, after all, first came to Richler as a reader; and his book--part memoir, part confession--is a disarmingly candid account of his conviction that Richler can be read through his books. Posner is a biographer; and he looks primarily to sources beyond Richler's published work for insights to Richler's life. Yanofsky is a reader: he tests Richler's comment that "it's all in the books" by using Richler's published work, together with his comments during interviews and speaking engagements, to shed light on the writer's life--Richler's and his own. The result is a conversational cultural study of the Canadian literary scene from a Montrealer's perspective, which sheds light on Richler's books and provides valuable insights into the cultural context of their production and reception. Nathalie Cooke Department of English McGill Institute for the Study of Canada The Great Latke Hamantash Debate, edited by Ruth Fredman Cernea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 216 pp. $18.00. Almost sixty years ago, the University of Chicago became the site of what has subsequently evolved into a profoundly significant intellectual

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press

Published: Mar 27, 2007

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