The second scroll

A. M. Klein

first published 1951 Marlboro Press, 1985 198 pages

Collected works of A.M. Klein

"The Second Scroll is an ambitious and complex work that interlaces prose, poetry, drama, and commentary. The narrative follows a Canadian Jew to the newly established state of Israel on a double mission - to collect the emerging national literature and to search for his Uncle Melech Davidson, a Holocaust survivor. Klein creates a modern Torah out of the uncle's crises of faith as he attempts to come to terms with th...

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The second scroll edition · 2000 · University of Toronto Press · 223 pages
Le second rouleau edition · 1990 · Boréal · 217 pages
The second scroll edition · 1985 · Marlboro Press · 198 pages
The second scroll edition · 1982 · McClelland and Stewart · 142 pages

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