A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History) (Volume 27)

Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields.

A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory (Volume 27) (McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History)

Literature & Fiction

Ravvin, Norman

History & Criticism

McGill-Queen's University Press

Who Gets In: An Immigration Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

University of Regina Press

<p> Kahnawake on the shore of the St Laurence across from Montreal. The North Shore of Vancouver. The Bow River shoreline in downtown Calgary. Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. These are a few of the vantages from which Norman Ravvin looks beyond contemporary urban and rural landscapes to uncover past and once-possible Canadas, lost voices and vanished ways of living that are made recognizable once again. Through interviews, careful research and a good many miles burning up the roadways, Norman Ravvin offers a view of this country as never seen before. </p>

Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue (Non Fiction)

Travel

Canada

Red Deer Press

Sex, skyscrapers, and standard Yiddish: Stories

Paperplates Books

In his third novel, Norman Ravvin writes about a father and his young son, and the companionship they develop at home and on the road. Returning to the wanderlust of his travelogue Hidden Canada and to the European Jewish past that often underwrites his characters’ lives, Ravvin follows the interconnections of urban living, the experience of travel and abandonment, and a man’s love of neighbourhoods, of jazz and old cars

The Joyful Child

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Gaspereau Pr

<p>Fiction. Jewish Studies. A stolen house on a Polish square. A pop bottle on Vancouver's east side. Nadia Baltzan knows a few things about theft. THE GIRL WHO STOLE EVERYTHING is a fresh and telling portrait of the relationship between prewar Polish shtetl life and Jewish lives today. In Poland, a house stands empty on a village square seventy-five years after its owners were killed. In Vancouver, the aftermath of a murder overturns the life of the victim's niece. In these old and new worlds, a mystery lurks--and Norman Ravvin lovingly recovers the past of both.</p>

The Girl Who Stole Everything

Genre Fiction

Linda Leith Publishing

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Ravvin, Norman. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Ravvin, Norman