![]() ![]() Urbain Street in the district now known as the Plateau and attended Baron Byng High School, locales that colour much of his work.įrom early on, Richler exhibited a rebellious, iconoclastic nature, alienating him from his birth family and later ruffling the feathers of the Jewish community with his biting satire. ![]() The son of Lily (née Rosenberg), whose father was an Chassidic rabbi, and Moses Richler, a scrap dealer, the author grew up on St. In his latter years, he turned increasingly to journalism, penning polemical essays excoriating Quebec nationalism, which earned him the opprobrium of many francophones and clouded his literary legacy in his home province.īorn in Montreal in 1931, Richler died in July 2001. ![]() Novelist Mordecai Richler, creator of such memorable fictional characters as Duddy Kravitz and Solomon Gursky, immortalized the working-class Montreal Jewish milieu, in which he was born. In honour of Canada’s 150th birthday, The CJN presents 40 profiles of some of the most prominent Jewish Canadians throughout our history. ![]()
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