Creator Bio
Adele Wiseman
1928–1992
Born in Winnipeg, Adele Wiseman incorporated many images of the Jewish immigrant communities of the Canadian prairie into her novels, essays, and short stories. Wiseman studied at the University of Manitoba and later lived in England and Italy. She received the Governor General’s Award of Canada.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Sacrifice
The train was beginning to slow down again, and Abraham noticed lights in the distance. He shifted his body only slightly so as not to disturb the boy, and sank back into the familiar pattern of…
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Crackpot
[…] Didn’t she go to all the weddings in the neighbourhood? All that she got wind of, anyhow, and that were big enough for the dance to be given in a hall or a synagogue basement. A lot of them took…