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  • Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's Cosmopolitanism

    by Victor Teboul ...
    About Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's CosmopolitanismHow does a polyglot Jewish family from Alexandria, Egypt, get caught up in the power play of the Suez Crisis? In this fascinating ebook Egyptian-born writer Victor Teboul recounts his cosmopolitan experience and his family’s ordeal following the 1956 Suez Crisis and the expulsion of Egypt’s Jewish community."Strangely enough, in ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Essays on Quebec nationalism and the Jews (1976 - 1985)

    by Victor Teboul ...
    About this BookIn 1976, the nationalist Parti Québécois came to power in Quebec and governed the province until 1985. A tense period followed its election within business circles and among the Jewish community. In the midst of this crisis, Victor Teboul’s Mythe et images du Juif au Québec had just been published and it exposed a negative portrayal of Jews in Quebec’s most well-read novels and ... Read more

    $3.82 CAD

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  • Graeme Gibson Interviews Alice Munro

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  • Anti-Judaism

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  • Feast of Stephen

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

    Edited by Coral Ann Howells ...
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    Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood ... Read more

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  • The Wicked Son

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