![]() ![]() At this point, the Montreal Jewish population was large enough for the project to be financially viable. The Montreal Yiddish literary movement began in 1907 when a Polish immigrant, Hirsch Wolofsky, started publishing his daily Yiddish newspaper, Keneder adler ( Canadian eagle), from his shop on Saint Laurent Boulevard. This fact is not very well known outside the Jewish community, however, because few French studies and translations conveyed the significance of the Montreal Jewish community’s cultural influence. Several scholars from this wave of Jewish immigration went on to produce a Yiddish language cultural current in Quebec second in North America only to the one that flourished in New York. ![]()
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