Transplanting Roots The Adam Fuerstenberg Reader

Transplanting Roots: The Adam Fuerstenberg Reader edited by Seymour Mayne with a
memoir by Bernard Katz and an introduction by Rebecca Margolis is available from Ronald
P. Frye & Co Book Publishers. Transplanting Roots presents a comprehensive collection of
Fuerstenberg’s contributions to Canadianl literature. Transplanting Roots is an essential
companion reader for those interested in Canadian literary history, the Yiddish diaspora,
and Jewish-Canadian culture in the twentieth century. Fuerstenberg’s scholarly and literary
legacy is now available in Transplanting Roots which reflects all dimensions of his inimitable
personality and wide knowledge.

Fuerstenberg, who knew four or five languages including a fluent Yiddish, went on to
become an esteemed professor of English literature at Ryerson University. A passionate
teacher, he was the founder of the community’s 27-year-old Canadian Jewish Book Awards
and a long-serving editor of Parchment, the journal of Canadian Jewish Literature. Books
and literature were as central in his life as many students, writers, teachers and others
whom he encouraged and inspired.
– Bill Gladstone

Adam Fuerstenberg was a pioneer of Canadian Yiddish literary scholarship who laid the
foundations for the field. His articles on the country’s Yiddish writers and their literary
scene remain influential today… By situating the Canadian Yiddish writers at the intersection
of Canadian literature, ethnicity and political life, Fuerstenberg was able to bridge the
worlds of English and Yiddish, Canada and the world at large.
– Rebecca Margolis