page_title: J. I. Segal
hierarchical_section_title: J. I. Segal
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of J. I. Segal from pamphlet advertising an event for J.I. Segal and the publication of his book Lider un loybn at the Folkshule on 5210 Waverly, ca. 1944.
context_page_description: J. I. Segal, born Yaakov Yitzchak Skolar, was a Canadian Yiddish poet and journalist. He was a pioneer in the creation of Canadian Yiddish literary journals, and was the foremost proponent of literary modernism in Yiddish Canada. His lyric poetry combines religious and folk tradition, modernist American literary practice, and Canadian landscape and atmosphere.
context_section_description: J. I. Segal (Yiddish: י.י. סיגאַל‎, Yud Yud Segal) (1896 – March 7, 1954), born Yaakov Yitzchak Skolar, was a Canadian Yiddish poet and journalist. He was a pioneer in the creation of Canadian Yiddish literary journals, and was the foremost proponent of literary modernism in Yiddish Canada. His lyric poetry combines religious and folk tradition, modernist American literary practice, and Canadian landscape and atmosphere.
caption: Portrait of J. I. Segal, c. 1944
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