{{Short description|Canadian Journalist}} {{Infobox writer | name=Israel Medres | image= | image_size= | caption= | native_name= | native_name_lang= | pseudonym=Ben Mordecai{{r|kucharsky}} | birth_name= | birth_date={{birth year|1894}} | birth_place=Lekhovich, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date={{death date and age|1964|08|06|1894|df=y}} | death_place=Montreal, Quebec, Canada | resting_place=Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, Montreal{{r|kucharsky}} | occupation= | language=Yiddish | alma_mater= | genre= | subject= | movement= | notableworks= | spouse= | relatives=Vivian Felsen (granddaughter)<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eoN1DwAAQBAJ&dq=Vivian+Felsen&pg=PR11|title=Kanade, di Goldene Medine?: Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes|date=2018|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-37941-1|pages=XI-XII|language=en|chapter=Contributors}}</ref> | awards= | years_active= }} '''Israel Jonah Medres''' ({{Langx|yi|ישראל יונה מדרש}}; 1894 – August 6, 1964){{r|jta}} was a Canadian Yiddish journalist and writer.
==Biography== Israel Medres was born in Lekhovich, Russian Empire, in 1894. He studied for three years at the yeshiva of Lida.{{r|EJ}}{{r|kucharsky}} At the age of 16 he immigrated to Canada,{{r|margolis}} where he joined the staff of the ''Keneder Adler'' in 1922.{{r|felsen}}
==Publications== * {{cite book|title=Montreal fun nekhtn|trans-title=Montreal of Yesterday|date=1947|language=yi}} * {{cite book|title=Tsvishn tsvey velt milkhomes|trans-title=Between Two World Wars|date=1964|language=yi}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=felsen>{{cite book|last=Felsen|first=Vivian|title=Traduire le Montreal Yiddish/New Readings of Yiddish Montreal|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|year=2007|isbn=9782760316638|editor1-last=Anctil|editor1-first=Pierre|editor1-link=Pierre Anctil|location=Ottawa|pages=110–115|chapter=Translating Israel Medres|jstor=j.ctt1ckpcr4|author-link=Vivian Felsen|editor2-last=Ravvin|editor2-first=Norman|editor3-last=Simon|editor3-first=Sherry|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vUysDAAAQBAJ}}</ref> <ref name=EJ>{{cite EJ|title= Medres, Israel Jonah|first=Vivian|last=Felsen|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/medres-israel-jonah}}</ref> <ref name=margolis>{{cite book| last=Margolis| first=R.| title=Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Cultural Life in Montreal, 1905–1945| publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press| year=2011| isbn=978-0-7735-3812-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlmLEi6Y3FMC&pg=PA50| page=50}}</ref> <ref name=jta>{{cite news|title=Israel Medres, Noted Canadian Jewish Journalist, Dies in Montreal|date=August 6, 1964|publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|newspaper=Daily News Bulletin|location=New York|volume=31|issue=154|url=https://www.jta.org/archive/israel-medres-noted-canadian-jewish-journalist-dies-in-montreal|page=4}}</ref> <ref name=kucharsky>{{cite book| last=Kucharsky| first=Danny| title=Sacred Ground on de la Savane: Montreal's Baron de Hirsch Cemetery|location=Montreal| publisher=Véhicule Press| year=2007| isbn=978-1-55065-196-6|pages=129–130}}</ref> }}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Medres, Israel}} Category:1894 births Category:1964 deaths Category:20th-century Canadian Jews Category:Burials at Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, Montreal Category:Canadian Ashkenazi Jews Category:Canadian columnists Category:Yiddish-language journalists Category:Journalists from Montreal Category:Canadian people of Belarusian-Jewish descent