A. M. Klein

Abraham Moses Klein (1909-1972), born in Ratno in Volhynia, arrived in Montreal as an infant, in a working-class neighbourhood of Jewish immigrants. A graduate of McGill, a lawyer trained at the Université de Montréal, editor-in-chief of the Canadian Jewish Chronicle from 1938 to 1955, speechwriter for Samuel Bronfman and an ardent Zionist, he was also a great connoisseur of Joyce. Ill from the early fifties, he left the bar in 1956, stopped writing and lived in retirement with his family until his death, in Montreal.

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• PoetryHath Not a Jew...A. M. Klein · 1940Literature