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020 _a9781442682320
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442682320
035 _a(DE-B1597)465036
035 _a(OCoLC)944177367
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082 0 4 _a813/.52
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKlein, A.M.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Second Scroll :
_bCollected Works of A.M. Klein /
_cA.M. Klein; ed. by Zailig Pollock, Elizabeth A. Popham.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2000]
264 4 _c©2000
300 _a1 online resource (296 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aHeritage
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe Second Scroll, the only novel by poet A.M. Klein, is an ambitious and complex work that interlaces prose, poetry, drama, and commentary. The narrative follows a Canadian Jew to the newly established state of Israel on a double mission - to collect the emerging national literature and to search for his Uncle Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor. Klein creates a modern Torah out of the uncle's crises of faith as he attempts to come to terms with the atrocities of the Second World War. The five chapters of The Second Scroll mirror the books of the Pentateuch (the 'first scroll') and the language is rich with biblical, talmudic, kabbalistic, and literary allusions as both the narrator and his uncle wrestle with the meaning of Jewish identity, messianic faith, and homecoming.Popham and Pollock's scholarly edition re-creates the feel of the Knopf publication of 1951-now a collector's item-but restores the text to Klein's original vision. This includes echoing the architectural structure of the Sistine Chapel in the physical layout of 'Gloss Gimel,' Klein's powerful commentary on Michelangelo's famous ceiling. Extensive annotations, and appendices that cross-reference the finished book to the raw material gathered during the author's trip to Israel and to the fund-raising speeches he delivered on his return, give the reader access to the process by which the novel took shape. A significant addition to UTP's Collected Works of A.M. Klein, and of interest not only to Klein scholars, The Second Scroll marks the inception of Holocaust literature and holds a central place in the Canadian literary canon.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aCanadians
_zIsrael
_vFiction.
650 0 _aHolocaust survivors
_vFiction.
650 0 _aJews
_vLiterary collections.
650 0 _aJudaism
_vLiterary collections.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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700 1 _aPollock, Zailig
_ecuratore
700 1 _aPopham, Elizabeth A.
_ecuratore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442682320
856 4 2 _3Cover
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