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Adam Fuerstenberg fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1980-1986.

Reference:

R4746-0-0-E, MG31-D22

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

102857

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Adam Fuerstenberg fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1980-1986.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

3 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of manuscripts including "The Poet and the Tycoon: The Relationships Between A.M. Klein and Samuel Bronfman", presented 1 June 1981 to the Jewish Historical Society of Canada, Halifax, N.S.; "Transplanting Roots: J.I. Segal's Canadian Perspective" presented 29 December 1980 at the 95th Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association, Houston, Tex.; "The Yiddish Influence in the Work of A.M. Klein: The Use of the Folk Character in the Poet's Play Hershel of Ostropol", presented 24 April 1980 at the 33rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference; "From Yiddish to 'Yiddishkeit': A.M. Klein, J.I. Segal and Montreal's Yiddish Culture", 1984; "Faithful to a Dream: The Proletarian Tradition in Canadian Yiddish Poetry", 1985; and correspondence with Sholem Stern and other Yiddish-Canadian Writers, 1985-86.

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Fuerstenberg, Adam 1939-2016

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Fuerstenberg, Adam 1939-2016 : Born in Radom, Poland in 1939, Adam Gabriel Fuerstenberg arrived with his parents in Montreal in 1951. After attending Baron Byng High School, he attended Sir George Williams University and studied English literature as a graduate student at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Fuerstenberg and his wife moved to Toronto in 1964, where he was hired by Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, remaining on faculty for 41 years, also becoming a long-serving member on the Ryerson board of governors.

A widely published scholar, Fuerstenberg wrote occasional pieces in the Canadian Jewish News, the National Post and the New York (English) Forward, including a story on the "significant Jewish backstory" to the popular television series, Downton Abbey. He also wrote an appreciation on Jewish Writing in Canada for the website Historica Canada.

A one-time head of the community's Committee for Yiddish, Fuerstenberg was the first literary critic to write about Canadian-Jewish writing, both Yiddish and English. He was the first to break ground connecting Yiddish literary culture in Canada to the work and writing life of the first generation of Jewish Canadian English-language writers, including A. M. Klein, Irving Layton and Mordecai Richler. The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies awarded him its Louis Rosenberg Distinguished Service Award in 2014.

Fuerstenberg headed the Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto for a time and helped to bring important exhibits to Toronto, including one on Anne Frank. He also escorted a group of teachers on a Holocaust Mission to Europe. He was an enthusiastic champion of numerous projects, including a Toronto Jewish Museum project.

Adam Fuerstenberg passed away in Toronto in 2016.

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Received in 1981 and 1987 from Adam Fuerstenberg of Toronto, Ont.__
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Speeches, addresses, etc., Canadian, 1980, 1981 "The Poet and the Tycoon: The Relationships Between A.M. Klein and Samuel Bronfman", 1981

Adam Fuerstenberg - Oratory, 1980, 1981 Jewish Historical Society of Canada (Halifax, N.S.), 1981

Adam Fuerstenberg - Manuscripts, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986 "Transplanting Roots: J.I. Segal's Canadian Perspective", 1980

Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (Toronto, Ont.) - Faculty, [1980-1986] 95th Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association (Houston, Tex.), 1980

Poets, Canadian, 1980-1981, 1984-1986 "The Yiddish Influence in the Work of A.M. Klein: The Use of the Folk Character in the Poet's Play Herschel of Ostropol, 1980

Poetry - Studying and teaching - Canada, 1980-1981, 1984-1986 33rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1980

Sholem Stern - Correspondence, 1986 "From Yiddish to `Yiddishkeit' : A.M. Klein, J.I. Segal and Montreal's Yiddish Culture", 1984

"Faithful to a Dream: The Proletarian Tradition in Canadian Yiddish Poetry", 1985
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MG31-D22
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