Betrayal

Literature & Fiction

KREISEL, HENRY

Contemporary

McClelland and Stewart Limited

A classic of Canadian Jewish literature for over fifty years 
 This new edition of a classic Canadian Jewish novel tells the story of Jacob Grossman, a middle-aged immigrant tailor who travels from Toronto to pre-World War Two Europe. The novel's action opens in 1935, with a striking portrait of Toronto's working-class Spadina Avenue district. Kreisel's narrative leap of genius is his depiction of Grossman's decision to return to reacquaint himself with his family and his boyhood home of Vienna. 
 Wearing a new white suit, an extravagance bought especially for the trip, he is mistaken for a rich man, and the charade he undertakes to maintain this image complicates an already difficult visit. Grossman finds Vienna transformed by the rise of Nazism and the slow, inexorable deterioration of Austria's prominent Jewish community. 
 Kreisel's insights into the forces that would lead the world to war are uniquely revealing. His portrait of prewar Jewish life in Europe and Canada helps us better understand the oncoming Holocaust. 
 Henry Kreisel's The Rich Man was among the first books by a Jewish writer on Jewish themes to be published in Canada. 
 With a new introduction by the Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University and editor of Red Deer's Canadian Jewish writing

Rich Man (Canadian Jewish Studies)

British & Irish

Red Deer Press

The Almost Meeting

Short Stories & Anthologies

NeWest Press

Henry Kreisel has been referred to as the Canadian Anton Chekhov. The Almost Meeting is a complete collection of Kreisel’s short fiction written between 1954 and 1980.

United States

Newest Pr

Another Country: Writings by and about Henry Kreisel (Litopys Ukrains'koi Povstans'koi Armii)

Neuman, Shirley

As relevant and engaging today as when they were written, Henry Kreisel&#146s stories make readers hold their breath with anticipation until the finely crafted final sentence. The Almost Meeting and other stories  is part of NeWest&#146s Landmark Editions Series. This masterful collection of Kreisel&#146s short fiction was written between 1954 and 1980. These stories are intelligent, literary reflections on what it is to be a citizen of a Canada and of the world.

The Almost Meeting: And Other Stories (Landmark Edition)

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