Montreal

Alan M. Tigay

1993

The theater troupe at the Saidye Bronfman Centre decided to practice a bit of outreach to the city’s French Canadian majority by staging a play by the Québécois dramatist Michel Tremblay. It wouldn’t have attracted much attention for Montreal’s leading Jewish cultural institution to produce Tremblay in English and, after all, French Canadians…

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Alan M. Tigay

b. 1947

Born in Detroit, Alan M. Tigay has served as executive editor of Hadassah Magazine and is an administrator of that publication’s Harold U. Ribalow Prize for fiction. He has produced editions of The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine’s Guide to the World’s Jewish Communities and Sights. Tigay also writes for the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

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