To the Editor:

Earl Berger’s article on Canadian Jews brings to my mind the name of that enormously gifted Canadian-Jewish writer, . . . A. M. Klein [“The Un-American Jew,” September 1966]. Poet, novelist, translator, Joyce scholar, and occasional ideologist, Klein has been neglected in recent years. . . .

Klein is still remembered in Canada among some Jews as well as in certain sectors of the non-Jewish community. My wife recalls an evening in the late 1950’s when he lectured at Assumption College in Windsor on Gerard Manley Hopkins. After his formal lecture he was asked repeatedly by his predominantly Catholic audience to recite from his own Jewish poetry that many of his listeners knew by heart. My own memory . . . takes me back to a memorial evening for the martyrs of the Warsaw ghetto in Detroit in 1952 or thereabouts when Klein, at midnight, and at the end of a typically exhausting Jewish program, held hundreds of men and women spellbound for a lecture that lasted an hour. . . .

Julius Weinberg
Department of History
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio

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