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Montreal - Toronto Express: Jewish Culture and Literature
North of the Border - A 3 Part Series
In collaboration with Old Dominion University, the Canadian Association of Jewish Scholars,
and the Vered Center of Jewish Studies at the University of Ottawa
Melanie Loisel
Wednesday, March 24 | 7:30 pm (EST)
Join Jewish community member and Old Dominion University professor, Dr. Peter Shulman, and Dr. Hernan Tesler-Mabe, Coordinator, Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program and President of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies as they moderate a discussion with Melanie Loisel, the last author in a series of outstanding Jewish Canadian literary greats. Join us as we explore Jewish Culture and Literature North of the Border!
Melanie Loisel is a former reporter for Radio Canada and the daily newspaper Le Devoir. She was awarded Canada's Woman of Distinction Award in 2018 and is the author of three books:
Ma vie en partage (My Shared Life) tells the story of her interview with Martin Gray, a Holocaust survivor (2014); Ils ont vécu le siècle: De la Shoah à la Syrie (They Lived the Century: From the Shoah to Syria), a collection of 62 interviews with those who witnessed the last century; and Ma réserve dans ma chair (My Reservation in my Skin), where she gives a voice to Marly Fontaine, a young Innu artist who tells her painful story and confronts the reader’s prejudices (2017).
The United Jewish Federation of Tidewater & the Simon Family JCC’s Lee and Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival is held in coordination with the Jewish Book Council,
the only organization in the organized American Jewish community whose sole purpose is the promotion of Jewish books.
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