Historically it may only have been a brief moment in Jewish Canadian history, but it was an important and passionate one, illuminated by the utopian hope of centuries. 
During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, the Jewish socialist movement was infused with new life by the work of Yiddish writers such as Sholom Aleichem, I.L. Peretz, and Sholom Asch, and it <tag "515647">derived</> further inspiration from the poetry of a number of working-class writers who had immigrated to the United States towards the end of the nineteenth century.   

