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- Title
"Westmount's Sinai": Projecting a Jewish Landscape onto Montreal through Fiction.
- Authors
Toufexis, Jesse
- Abstract
For Canadian Jewish authors, every peak and every valley, every lake and every island, every forest and every plain, is a potential locus for mythic energy. In this brief article, I wish to offer a glimpse into the implicit means by which Jewish authors project a specifically Jewish landscape onto their surroundings. Through a short study of Chava Rosenfarb's Edgia's Revenge and Leonard Cohen's The Favourite Game, I will explore both authors' uses of Mount Royal and the Laurentian Mountains as sacred spaces in the tradition of earlier Jewish stories involving mountains and wilderness. These similarities are especially poignant when we consider Cohen and Rosenfarb's very different experiences of being Jewish in the world--one a wealthy uptown Jew from Montreal and the other a survivor of the Holocaust.
- Subjects
MONTREAL (Quebec); LAURENTIAN Mountains (Quebec); JEWISH authors; SACRED space; CANADIAN authors; HOLOCAUST survivors; COHEN, Leonard, 1934-2016; LANDSCAPES; JEWISH refugees; SYNAGOGUES
- Publication
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes, 2021, Vol 31, p148
- ISSN
1198-3493
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25071/1916-0925.40216