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Ira Nadel

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Ira Bruce Nadel (born July 22, 1943) is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia. [1]

51 relations: American Canadians, Ancient Olympic Games, Antisemitism, Biography, British Columbia, Cambridge University Press, Canadians, CBC Radio, Charles Dickens, Cornell University, David Mamet, ECW Press, Emigration, Ezra Pound, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Finnegans Wake, Harry Ransom Center, Infobase Publishing, James Joyce, Jewish American literature, Leon Uris, Leonard Cohen, Leopold Bloom, List of biographers, List of Olympic torch relays, Literary criticism, Macmillan Publishers (United States), MI5, Modernism, Nazism, New Jersey, Our Mutual Friend, Oxford University Press, Primary source, Princeton University Press, Rahway, New Jersey, Random House, Royal Society of Canada, Rutgers University, Social networking service, St. Martin's Press, Talmud, The Education of Henry Adams, The Times, Tom Stoppard, Twitter, Ulysses (novel), University of British Columbia, University of Texas at Austin, ..., Wilkie Collins. Expand index (1 more) »

American Canadians

American Canadians are Canadian citizens of American descent, or Canadians who identify to some extent with American society.

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Ancient Olympic Games

The ancient Olympic Games were originally a festival, or celebration of and for Zeus; later, events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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CBC Radio

CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author.

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ECW Press

ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Emigration

Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement.

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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (FDU Press) is a publishing house under the operation and oversight of Fairleigh Dickinson University, the largest private university in New Jersey with international campuses in Vancouver, British Columbia and Wroxton, Oxfordshire.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Canada judges to have "made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life".

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Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake is a work of fiction by Irish writer James Joyce.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the United States and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Infobase Publishing

Infobase Publishing is an American publisher of reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.

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Jewish American literature

Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States.

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Leon Uris

Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote two bestselling books, Exodus (published in 1958) and Trinity (published in 1976).

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Leopold Bloom

Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's Ulysses.

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List of biographers

Biographers are authors who write an account of another person's life, while autobiographers are authors who write their own biography.

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List of Olympic torch relays

The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games.

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Literary criticism

Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Macmillan Publishers (United States)

Macmillan Publishers USA was the former name of a now mostly defunct American publishing company.

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MI5

The Security Service, also MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and Defence Intelligence (DI).

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Primary source

In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called original source or evidence) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Rahway, New Jersey

Rahway is a city in southern Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; Société royale du Canada), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists and artists.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Social networking service

A social networking service (also social networking site, SNS or social media) is a web application that people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

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St. Martin's Press

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Talmud

The Talmud (Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד talmūd "instruction, learning", from a root LMD "teach, study") is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and theology.

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The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.

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University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Nadel

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