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Canadian legend, A.M. Klein. Klein was the first Jew in Canada to be published in English and also the first Jew to win the Governor General’s award in 1948. In his book The Street, Mordecai Richler recalls raising money as a child for Klein to go on the radio in support of the creation of Israel. His poetry inspired the likes of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen, both great Canadian poets themselves.