Yiddish for Pirates - Gary Barwin humour "provisional memory" in the '60s

"provisional memory" in the '60s and '70s

deliver mounds of gifts

and Leonore Freiman

Future generations will benefit from each and every one of the courageous actions and triumphs of the women profiled here

Yiddish for Pirates - Gary Barwin humour "provisional memory" in the '60sShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the (Canadian) Governor General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500 year old Jewish parrot. Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew,