Ira Bruce Nadel was born on July 22,1943 and is an American-Canadian biographer, literary critic and James Joyce scholar, and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia.
24 Facts About Ira Nadel
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Ira Nadel has written books on the twentieth-century Modernists, especially Ezra Pound and Joyce, biographies of Leonard Cohen and Leon Uris, and on Jewish-American authors.
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Ira Nadel has won Canadian literary awards, and has edited and written the introduction to a number of scholarly books and period pieces.
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Ira Nadel is a critic of the Olympic torch relay as a legacy of the Nazis.
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Ira Nadel received a BA in 1965 and an MA in 1967 from Rutgers University, New Jersey, and a PhD in English in 1970 from Cornell University.
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Ira Nadel joined the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 1977, and then to professor of English in 1985.
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Ira Nadel was chair of the Department of English graduate program from 1992 to 1995.
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Ira Nadel is known in British Columbia as a long-serving book critic for CBC Radio's afternoon show.
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Ira Nadel has two children from his second marriage, on July 4,1976, to Josephine Margolis, a lawyer.
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Ira Nadel has protested the use of the Olympic torch as a legacy from the Nazis.
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Ira Nadel considers the torch relay a fabrication by the Nazis in 1936 in Germany, and not associated with the ancient Olympics.
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Ira Nadel saw Uris's work as attacking antisemitism with a fictional heroic Jewish past, but broadening the appeal to a non-Jewish readership.
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Ira Nadel revealed that Uris lived the life he described in a fictional setting, with many war experiences and travel to dangerous spots.
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Ira Nadel looked at references to the Talmud in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
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Ira Nadel did note the shared impact of the concept of exodus on Jews and on Joyce, a voluntary exile from an Ireland then under the dominion of England.
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Ira Nadel has published a biography of Leonard Cohen, the singer, songwriter, poet and novelist, titled Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen.
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Ira Nadel co-edited The Victorian Muse, Gertrude Stein, The Making of Literature and a collection of previously unpublished Ezra Pound letters.
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Ira Nadel has edited the Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, and organized conferences about the work of Joyce.
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Ira Nadel has edited an Oxford reprint of the American classic, The Education of Henry Adams, and Iolani: or, Tahiti as it was, by Wilkie Collins.
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Ira Nadel is the author of Tom Stoppard: A Life, on the prolific British theater playwright.
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Ira Nadel depended on primary material and contemporaneous newspaper reports for his biography of Mamet.
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Ira Nadel focused on facts and less on interpretation and analysis.
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For Cohen's biography, Ira Nadel did interview his subject and obtained access to unpublished material and authorization to write the biography.
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Ira Nadel thinks of texts as riddles, and in writing about Joyce, has looked at intertextual connections between Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Joyce's Finnegans Wake.