( 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.

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.

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.

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.

Richler's ambivalent attitude toward Montreal's Jewish community was captured in Mordecai and Me ( 2003 ), a book by Joel Yanofsky.

* Mordecai Richler's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

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

Oh Quebec! Richler's essay, " OH!

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.

* 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.

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

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

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

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.

One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.

The most frequent excuse for the prevalence of unoriginals and tested imports is increasing production expense -- producers cannot afford to take chances.

True terminal bronchioles comprise the most frequent form taken by the distal airways in types 1 and 3, although small numbers of poorly developed respiratory bronchioles are present.

Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.

They are the most common heliozoa in fresh water, and are especially frequent in lakes and rivers, but a few are found in marine and soil habitats as well.

It may occur at any age but is most frequent in the third decade of life.

The most frequent presenting symptoms are headache, drowsiness, confusion, seizures, hemiparesis or speech difficulties together with fever with a rapidly progressive course.

One of the most frequent speculations is that the entire book ( excepting 9: 4-20 ) was originally written in Aramaic, with portions translated into Hebrew, possibly to increase acceptance-many Aramaisms in the Hebrew text find proposed explanation by the hypothesis of an inexact initial translation into Hebrew.

Mice and rabbits were the most frequent subject of her fantasy paintings.

The most frequent benign conditions are puerperal mastitis, fibrocystic breast changes and mastalgia.

There are frequent fictional crossovers between Beano characters, with most of the characters living in the fictional Beanotown.

In the UK, cancer and cardiac problems seem to be the most frequent causes of premature death.

The most frequent symptoms of withdrawal from benzodiazepines are insomnia, gastric problems, tremors, agitation, fearfulness, and muscle spasms.

The most frequent consonant ( that is, the one appearing most often in speech ) in many languages is.

* Mode – the most frequent value in the data set

Non-English names include Treno suburbano in Italian, Cercanías in Spanish, Rodalies in Catalan, Nahverkehrszug in German ( and in most larger cities S-Bahns though these trains also often include city centre metro-like sections where lines have merged and services become more frequent, and stations are closer together to better distribute passengers into the city core ), Train de banlieue in French, Příměstský vlak in Czech and Elektrichka in Russian.

The most common letters do not necessarily require chording as is the case with the GKOS keyboard optimised layouts ( Android app ) where the twelve most frequent characters only require single keys.

Thunderstorms are most frequent during the summer, occurring on average 30 times annually.

" In the New Testament, a thorough concordance search shows that the second most frequent use of " head " ( kephalē ), after " the structure that connects to our neck and sits atop our bodies ," is the metaphorical sense of " source.

Brewster's position as editor brought him into frequent contact with the most eminent scientific men, and he was naturally among the first to recognize the benefit that would accrue from regular communication among those in the field of science.

One of Sullivan's favorite and most frequent acts was The Supremes, who appeared 17 times on the show, helping to pave the way for other Motown acts to appear on the show such as The Temptations, The Four Tops, and Martha and the Vandellas.

* Juvenile absence epilepsy is an idiopathic generalized epilepsy with later onset than CAE, typically in prepubertal adolescence, with the most frequent seizure type being absence seizures.

In an innovative test of what people fear the most, Bill Tancer analyzed the most frequent online search queries that involved the phrase, " fear of ...".