- Published On: June 10, 2010
Winnipeg Yiddish Women’s Reading Circle (Canada) Received: spring 2006; last updated: summer 2008 Brief description:This report describes the activities of the Winnipeg Yiddish Women’s Reading Circle, a reading group in Manitoba, Canada that uses [...]
- Published On: June 10, 2010
Q Why did you choose to work on Arguing with the Storm? A Arguing with the Storm began with the Winnipeg Women’s Yiddish Reading Circle, established in 2000 by a feisty group of seniors to read work [...]
- Published On: June 9, 2010
Chepo, Panama Chepo, Panama It didn’t end the way we thought it would, the road, the land it drove through which wasn’t Spain, wasn’t Mexico, wasn’t anything we’d imagined. We’d coasted the Pan-American for months, [...]
- Published On: February 19, 2010
The Knife Sharpener’s Bell: Journey Through Language and Fear by Tanya Christiansen Winter 2010 The Knife Sharpener’s Bell, Rhea Tregebov’s first novel, is a tale of multiple migrations. As the child of Russian-Jewish immigrants living [...]
- Published On: December 12, 2009
The Knife Sharpener’s Bell: Back in the USSR Rhea Tregebov’s tart first novel tells the story of Winnipeg Jews whose naive faith in Stalin prompts their return to Odessa B y Jim Bartley, December 12, [...]
- Published On: September 20, 2009
The Knife Sharpener’s Bell: Tregebov Captures Ordinary Characters under Communism By Bev Sandell Greenberg, September 20, 2009 During the Great Depression, former Winnipeg author Rhea Tregebov’s left-wing Jewish grandparents tried to leave this city to repatriate [...]