Pendant plus d'un demi-siècle, Montréal a été le berceau d'une culture yiddish prolifique, qui a modifié le profil de la ville tout en s'exprimant, au premier chef, par la littérature. Ce numéro anthologique de Moebius présente un aperçu de cette production qui réunit de nombreux genres littéraires : essai, poésie, chronique, récit, mémoires, roman, théâtre. Parmi les dix-sept textes choisis, nous retrouvons les poèmes de Jacob-Isaac Segal, les chroniques du journaliste Israël Medresh et les mémoires d'Hirsch Wolofsky et de Hershl Novak. De plus, on découvrira plusieurs inédits, tels les poèmes, essais et nouvelles de Melech Ravitch, Rachel Korn, Chava Rosenfarb, Ida Maze et Israël Rabinovitch. Un numéro dirigé par Chantal Ringuet, qui signe plusieurs des traductions.

Moebius no 139 :  Voix yiddish de Montréal, Novembre 2013

On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: "What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will tell future generations who we were. And you already know what is being said today about our generation. That we are the generation of comfort and indifference, the generation of cash and iPods; that we are individualists, egotists; that we don't care about anything, except our navels and our gadgets. Aren't you tired of hearing this? Well, I am. Luckily, today we have a chance to prove that it's not true, that it has never been true." The "Maple Spring" saw more than 300, 000 students across Quebec protest a tuition fee hike by striking from their classes. Nadeau-Dubois takes readers step-by-step through the strike, recounting the confrontations with journalists, ministers, judges, and police. Along the way he exposes the moral and intellectual poverty of the Quebec elite and celebrates the remarkable energy of the students who opposed the mercenary attitude of the austerity agenda. In Defiance is translated from the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award winner for non-fiction, Tenir tête (Lux Éditeur) We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing, an initiative of the Roadmap for Canada's Official Languages 2013-2018: Education, Immigration, Communities, for our translation activities.

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