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The Second Scroll
by A.M. Klein
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- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969. pp.142 New Canadian Library N. 23. Paperback. VERY GOOD copy, minor edge wear, age toning to page edges, clean unmarked interior.
Synopsis
Abraham Moses Klein was born in Ratno, Ukraine, in 1909. The following year his family emigrated to Montreal, where he was raised in the city’s Jewish immigrant district. Klein studied political science and classics at McGill University, earning his B.A. in 1930. Three years later, he took a law degree from the Université de Montréal. He practised law until his retirement in 1956. While at McGill, Klein associated himself as a writer, editor, and educational director with Young Judea, the Canadian Zionist youth movement. While his early poetry examined his relationship to his Jewish heritage, the Depression and the rise of Nazism led him into the realm of political and social satire. His final volume of poetry, The Rocking Chair and Other Poems (1948), which won the Governor General’s Award, explores and responds to a broad spectrum of Canadian life and its traditions. In 1949 Klein travelled on behalf of the Canadian Jewish Congress to the new State of Israel and to Jewish refugee camps in Europe and North Africa. This mission inspired his novel, The Second Scroll (1951). Shortly after its publication, Klein suffered a nervous breakdown. After his recovery, he became reclusive, relinquishing his seventeen-year editorship of the Canadian Jewish Chronicle and retiring from his law practice. He also stopped writing. A.M. Klein died in Montreal in 1972.
Reviews
On Nov 8 2020, a reader said:
This amazing little novel combines prose, poetry and drama to explore the phenomenon of being Jewish in the twentieth century. It is by turns philosophical, nostalgic, bitter, humorous, lyrical and prayerful. Written in 1951, it not only evokes the long history of Judaism but meditates on events which had occurred not long before: the Holocaust on the one hand and the declaration of Israel's independence on the other. It grapples with the problem of evil and the affirmation of an ancient faith. It also discusses Judaism's uneasy relationships with the other Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam. This is the aspect that gave me the most trouble as a non-Jewish reader. But I think it provides an eye-opener which might help us ponder how we might conduct interfaith discussions with a little more understanding and respect.
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Details
- Bookseller
- J.H. Gordon Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00187
- Title
- The Second Scroll
- Author
- A.M. Klein
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- New Canadian Library, Canada, Russia, fiction, 20th century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadiana; New Canadian Library; Fiction;
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