Richler's most frequent conflicts were with the Jewish community, English Canadian nationalists, and French Quebec nationalists.

( Interestingly, a nearly identical episode occurs in Mordecai Richler's Son of A Smaller Hero, another North American-Jewish author to whose work many comparisons with Roth's have been made — most notably, in the alienation experienced by the assimilated Jew, no longer a member of his original ethnic, religious community, yet also not accepted into the larger culture.

Richler's long-running dispute with Quebec nationalists was fueled by magazine articles he published in American publications between the late 1970s and mid 1990s, in which he criticized Quebec's language laws, and the rise of separatism.

Winter was one of the judges of the 2006 Giller Prize, and his line drawings illustrate Noah Richler's This is My Country, What's Yours?

Richler's son Jacob was a student at Selwyn House.

* Mordecai Richler's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

* In Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version the titular character tells us, in relation to the publishing of Terry McIver's first novel, " literature would have been better served had he been interrupted mid-flight by a gentleman from Porlock.

Thompson defended Mordecai Richler's novel Cocksure in Canada Reads 2006.

* Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version uses footnotes as a character device that highlights unreliable passages in the narration.

* Mordecai Richler's 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and its 1974 film adaptation

Montréal's characteristic row houses and their iconic alleyways, balconies, and outdoor staircases have become cultural symbols of the city, featured in David Fennario's Balconville and Mordecai Richler's The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

In 1972, he returned home to Canada, where he directed several films including the adaptation of his friend and one-time roommate Mordecai Richler's novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

The title character ( his name coincides with Mordecai Richler's 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here ) invents a way to resurrect the dead using nanotechnology, developed in McDonald's 1994 novel Necroville.

* The school has been mentioned in Mordecai Richler's novel, Barney's Version.

Some fans and critics have cited this as Mordecai Richler's best book, and in terms of scope and style it is unmatched by his other works.

Gartner defended Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version on the CBC's Canada Reads 2004.

Klein attended Baron Byng High School, an institution that would later be immortalized in Mordecai Richler's novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

Years later, Leah Rosenberg, Richler's mother, published an autobiography, The Errand Runner: Memoirs of a Rabbi's Daughter ( 1981 ), which discusses Mordecai's birth and upbringing, and the sometime difficult relationship between them.

* The animator Caroline Leaf created The Street ( 1976 ), based on Richler's 1969 short story of the same name.

Some commentators were alarmed about the strong controversy over Richler's book, saying that it suggested the persistence of antisemitism among sections of the Quebec population.

In 1992, he described Mordechai Richler's book Oh Canada!

* Barney's Version ( 2010, screenplay by Michael Konyves, based on Richler's novel of the same name ; Richler wrote an early draft )

Critics took particular exception to Richler's allegations of anti-semitism in Quebec.

* The school is part of the basis for Richler's Jacob Two-Two adventure series.

Brooklyn College students have an ambivalent attitude toward their school.

" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

Eleanor appears to have taken an ambivalent attitude towards these affairs: for example, Geoffrey of York, an illegitimate son of Henry and a prostitute named Ykenai, was acknowledged by Henry as his child and raised at Westminster in the care of the Queen.

Admiral Nagano summed up his service's ambivalent attitude during this period by observing " The government has decided that if there is no war, the fate of the nation is sealed.

According to Kilson the attitude of the Africans toward their chiefs became ambivalent: frequently they respected the office but resented the exactions made by the individual occupying it.

The uncertainty of tenure and slightly ambivalent official British attitude to the fate of the Territory influenced the early population-for many years only debtors from other islands, pirates and those fleeing the law were prepared to undertake the risk of settling in the Virgin Islands.

At the same time, Irving maintained an ambivalent attitude to Holocaust denial depending on his audience.

According to a report issued in 2005 by the United States Department of State, the public's attitude towards religion is ambivalent.

The DVP was initially seen, along with the German National People's Party, as part of the " national opposition " to the Weimar Republic, particularly for its grudging acceptance of democracy and its ambivalent attitude towards the Freikorps and the Kapp Putsch in 1920.

Societies have tended to have an ambivalent attitude toward public intoxication.

The Russians ' attitude towards this holiday is ambivalent.

He was deeply concerned about what he considered the ambivalent attitude among Norwegian-American Lutheran clergy toward slavery, and thought that too few of his fellow Norwegian Americans from Koshkonong had volunteered.

" He went on to identify three core commonalities of pseudeoarchaeological theories: 1 ) the unscientific nature of its method and evidence, 2 ) its tendency to " provide simple, compact answers to complex, difficult issues ," and 3 ) its tendency to present itself as being persecuted by the archaeological establishment, accompanied by an ambivalent attitude towards the scientific ethos of the Enlightenment.

BT's attitude to packet switching was ambivalent at best.

This stance is now maintained only by the small Republican Sinn Féin party, though Sinn Féin itself still at certain times takes an ambivalent attitude towards recognising the legitimacy of the State.

While Governor, Brown's attitude towards the death penalty was often ambivalent, if not arbitrary.

), " prowlie " ( an armored police car ), " offyourass " ( possessing an attitude ), " bivving " ( bisexuality, from " ambivalent ") and " mucker " ( a person running amok ).

This definition of attitude allows for one's evaluation of an attitude object to vary from extremely negative to extremely positive, but also admits that people can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object meaning that they might at different times express both positive and negative attitude toward the same object.

A hard-boiled private eye has an ambivalent attitude towards the police.

) or otherwise have a more rational, ambivalent attitude towards women.

The Army's leaders retained a generally conservative political outlook, and had an ambivalent attitude towards the Nazi party and the unruly SA, the party's political militia.

An uncompromising opponent of fascism, Gellhorn had a more ambivalent attitude toward communism.