Rebecca Margolis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Margolis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Margolis |
| SIGNATURE | MARGOLIS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1354-830X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Multilingual Narratives and Cultural Diversity in the Phryne Fisher Series and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Kerry Greenwood’s bestselling Phryne Fisher historical crime novels (1989–2022) and their acclaimed ABC television adaptation, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012–2015), draw on historical research to portray 1920s Melbourne. Centring on the affluent private detective Phryne Fisher, the novels and television series address post–World War I social issues within the city’s culturally diverse neighbourhoods. This article examines multilingualism as…
“Oy with the Poodles Already!”
The ever-increasing usage of Yiddish on American sitcoms and other comedic genres encompasses Jewish as well as non-Jewish characters. In this study I offer a metalinguistic analysis of how main or recurring fictional characters who are identified as non-Jewish employ Yiddish loanwords, intonation, and syntax (Yiddishisms) in American comedy television. I argue that Yiddishisms spoken by non-Jewish characters introduce three new tropes: the Yiddi…
Kosher Entertainment Online
After years of internet prohibitions, the 2020 coronavirus pandemic ushered in a new age of digital Hasidic Yiddish screen production. In addition to existing list-servs, Hasidic Yiddish speakers have increasingly employed new media platforms to produce and disseminate screen production, including comedy sketches and shorts; behind-the scenes for feature films; music videos; and videocasts. Intended for Hasidic audiences, these express and promot…
Forays into a Digital Yiddishland
Remaining alive in silence? Melekh Ravitch as Yiddish catalyst
The leading member of a group of wartime refugees who settled in Montreal between 1938 and 1948 was the Warsaw Yiddish poet and essayist Melech Ravitch (1893–1976). This paper focuses on Ravitch’s literary and cultural activities in Montreal from his arrival in 1941 through his departure for Israel in 1954, notably his activity with the Jewish Public Library as well as his writing. It suggests that while Ravitch had been among the most prominent …
Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil
In 1931, ninety-nine percent of Montreal's sixty thousand Jews reported that Yiddish was their mother tongue. In the succeeding decades, Yiddish culture has continued to have a prominent place in Montreal's social landscape. In Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil
HipHopKhasene
Jewish identity is increasingly fluid in Canada, as evidenced by new developments in Jewish culture. Klezmer music-traditionally associated with Jewish wedding celebrations-has experienced a mass revival and entry into the mainstream and has become firmly entrenched within Yiddish culture, including the emergence of new unions with genres such as hip hop. This close study of a bilingual Yiddish-English track called ''Kale bazetsn'' (Veiling the B…
Yiddish and Multiculturalism
Yiddish has shifted from a Jewish immigrant language to a Jewish heritage and ethnic language within the rubric of Canadian multiculturalism. This paper examines the interplay between four decades of multiculturalism and the changing place of Yiddish within Canadian life. It discusses how multiculturalism has encouraged the maintenance of a distinct Yiddish culture as an expression of Jewish identity within the matrix of Canadian diversity, notab…
Ale Brider
As a minor centre in transnational pre-Holocaust Yiddish culture, Montreal aligned itself with major centres, in particular the nearby metropolis of New York City. This study examines the relationship between Yiddish Montreal and Yiddish New York City from the very beginnings of eastern European Jewish immigration in the 1880s through the Second World War, with a particular focus on publishing and literary life. It compares the two cities and pre…
Culture in Motion
Le vingtième siècle a vu la transformation du Yiddish au Canada: la langue s’est déplacée d’un vernaculaire immigrant, à une langue de haute culture, à une langue d’héritage et à une composante de la culture populaire juive. Cette transformation correspond à un changement de sa vie institutionnelle, notamment de la publication, la littérature, l’éducation et le théâtre et la musique. L’immigration de masse de dizaines de milliers de juifs Yiddish…
Kanader Zhurnal
Arrestin-2 and G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase 5 Interact with NFκB1 p105 and Negatively Regulate Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ERK1/2 Activation in Macrophages
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a recently described receptor class involved in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. Here, we demonstrate that arrestin-2 and GRK5 (G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5), proteins that regulate G protein-coupled receptor signaling, play a negative role in TLR4 signaling in Raw264.7 macrophages. We find that lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation is significantly enhanced in arrestin-2 and …
A New Generation of Lesbian Jewish Activism
This article examines recent developments in Montreal lesbian, bisexual and queer women's Jewish community building. It begins with an overview of the issues facing GLBT Jews. It follows with background on Montreal's lesbian Jewish groups in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It explores the author's personal perspective on queer Jewish identity and her role as coordinator of Nice Jewish Girls, a Montreal group for anyone who identifies as a lesbian, bi…
Triangulations
Photographs by Rebecca Margolis depict Tyree Guyton's "Heidelberg Project," which demonstrated how an artist "had retained a deep pride in his neglected community. Using abandoned houses and junk as his medium, he turned his community into an outdoor ghetto gallery." Companion poems by Jerry W. Ward, Jr., explore these images of ordered chaos. Titles of poems: Notice. Paradise Closed, Diagnosis, Y Circles X Squares: Good Healthkeeping, At the Bor…
HipHopKhasene
Jewish identity is increasingly fluid in Canada, as evidenced by new developments in Jewish culture. Klezmer music-traditionally associated with Jewish wedding celebrations-has experienced a mass revival and entry into the mainstream and has become firmly entrenched within Yiddish culture, including the emergence of new unions with genres such as hip hop. This close study of a bilingual Yiddish-English track called ''Kale bazetsn'' (Veiling the B…
A New Generation of Lesbian Jewish Activism
This article examines recent developments in Montreal lesbian, bisexual and queer women's Jewish community building. It begins with an overview of the issues facing GLBT Jews. It follows with background on Montreal's lesbian Jewish groups in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It explores the author's personal perspective on queer Jewish identity and her role as coordinator of Nice Jewish Girls, a Montreal group for anyone who identifies as a lesbian, bi…
Triangulations
Photographs by Rebecca Margolis depict Tyree Guyton's "Heidelberg Project," which demonstrated how an artist "had retained a deep pride in his neglected community. Using abandoned houses and junk as his medium, he turned his community into an outdoor ghetto gallery." Companion poems by Jerry W. Ward, Jr., explore these images of ordered chaos. Titles of poems: Notice. Paradise Closed, Diagnosis, Y Circles X Squares: Good Healthkeeping, At the Bor…
A New Generation of Lesbian Jewish Activism
This article examines recent developments in Montreal lesbian, bisexual and queer women's Jewish community building. It begins with an overview of the issues facing GLBT Jews. It follows with background on Montreal's lesbian Jewish groups in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. It explores the author's personal perspective on queer Jewish identity and her role as coordinator of Nice Jewish Girls, a Montreal group for anyone who identifies as a lesbian, bi…
Arrestin-2 and G Protein-coupled Receptor Kinase 5 Interact with NFκB1 p105 and Negatively Regulate Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated ERK1/2 Activation in Macrophages
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a recently described receptor class involved in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. Here, we demonstrate that arrestin-2 and GRK5 (G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5), proteins that regulate G protein-coupled receptor signaling, play a negative role in TLR4 signaling in Raw264.7 macrophages. We find that lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation is significantly enhanced in arrestin-2 and …
Kanader Zhurnal
Culture in Motion
Le vingtième siècle a vu la transformation du Yiddish au Canada: la langue s’est déplacée d’un vernaculaire immigrant, à une langue de haute culture, à une langue d’héritage et à une composante de la culture populaire juive. Cette transformation correspond à un changement de sa vie institutionnelle, notamment de la publication, la littérature, l’éducation et le théâtre et la musique. L’immigration de masse de dizaines de milliers de juifs Yiddish…
Ale Brider
As a minor centre in transnational pre-Holocaust Yiddish culture, Montreal aligned itself with major centres, in particular the nearby metropolis of New York City. This study examines the relationship between Yiddish Montreal and Yiddish New York City from the very beginnings of eastern European Jewish immigration in the 1880s through the Second World War, with a particular focus on publishing and literary life. It compares the two cities and pre…
Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil
In 1931, ninety-nine percent of Montreal's sixty thousand Jews reported that Yiddish was their mother tongue. In the succeeding decades, Yiddish culture has continued to have a prominent place in Montreal's social landscape. In Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil
HipHopKhasene
Jewish identity is increasingly fluid in Canada, as evidenced by new developments in Jewish culture. Klezmer music-traditionally associated with Jewish wedding celebrations-has experienced a mass revival and entry into the mainstream and has become firmly entrenched within Yiddish culture, including the emergence of new unions with genres such as hip hop. This close study of a bilingual Yiddish-English track called ''Kale bazetsn'' (Veiling the B…
Yiddish and Multiculturalism
Yiddish has shifted from a Jewish immigrant language to a Jewish heritage and ethnic language within the rubric of Canadian multiculturalism. This paper examines the interplay between four decades of multiculturalism and the changing place of Yiddish within Canadian life. It discusses how multiculturalism has encouraged the maintenance of a distinct Yiddish culture as an expression of Jewish identity within the matrix of Canadian diversity, notab…
Remaining alive in silence? Melekh Ravitch as Yiddish catalyst
The leading member of a group of wartime refugees who settled in Montreal between 1938 and 1948 was the Warsaw Yiddish poet and essayist Melech Ravitch (1893–1976). This paper focuses on Ravitch’s literary and cultural activities in Montreal from his arrival in 1941 through his departure for Israel in 1954, notably his activity with the Jewish Public Library as well as his writing. It suggests that while Ravitch had been among the most prominent …
Forays into a Digital Yiddishland
“Oy with the Poodles Already!”
The ever-increasing usage of Yiddish on American sitcoms and other comedic genres encompasses Jewish as well as non-Jewish characters. In this study I offer a metalinguistic analysis of how main or recurring fictional characters who are identified as non-Jewish employ Yiddish loanwords, intonation, and syntax (Yiddishisms) in American comedy television. I argue that Yiddishisms spoken by non-Jewish characters introduce three new tropes: the Yiddi…
Kosher Entertainment Online
After years of internet prohibitions, the 2020 coronavirus pandemic ushered in a new age of digital Hasidic Yiddish screen production. In addition to existing list-servs, Hasidic Yiddish speakers have increasingly employed new media platforms to produce and disseminate screen production, including comedy sketches and shorts; behind-the scenes for feature films; music videos; and videocasts. Intended for Hasidic audiences, these express and promot…
Multilingual Narratives and Cultural Diversity in the Phryne Fisher Series and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Kerry Greenwood’s bestselling Phryne Fisher historical crime novels (1989–2022) and their acclaimed ABC television adaptation, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012–2015), draw on historical research to portray 1920s Melbourne. Centring on the affluent private detective Phryne Fisher, the novels and television series address post–World War I social issues within the city’s culturally diverse neighbourhoods. This article examines multilingualism as…
Judaism (11 works) · History (10 works) · Yiddish (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Canadian Identity and History (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works)