Editing Mordecai Richler (section)

===Early life and education===
The son of Lily (née Rosenberg) and Moses Isaac Richler,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/mordecai-richler-salem/mordecai-richler |title=Mordecai Richler Biography |website=eNotes.com |access-date=2015-05-15 |url-access=registration}}</ref> a scrap metal dealer, Richler was born on January 27, 1931, in [[Montreal]], Quebec,<ref name="nytobit">{{Cite news |last=Depalma|first=Anthony |date=2001-07-04|title=Mordecai Richler, Novelist Who Showed a Street-Smart Montreal, Is Dead at 70|language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/books/mordecai-richler-novelist-who-showed-a-street-smart-montreal-is-dead-at-70.html|access-date=2021-11-05|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="birthdate">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Foran |first=Charles |title=Mordecai Richler |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=4 March 2015 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mordecai-richler}}</ref> and raised on [[Saint Urbain Street|St. Urbain Street]] in that city's [[Mile End (Montreal)|Mile End]] area. He was fluent in English and [[Yiddish]] but had poor French.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Foran |first1=Charles |title=Mordechai: The Life & Times |date=2010 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf Canada |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-676-97963-3 |page=408}}</ref> Richler graduated from [[Baron Byng High School]] and enrolled in [[Sir George Williams College]] (now [[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]]) to study but did not complete his degree. Years later, 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 sometimes difficult relationship between them. (Mordecai Richler's grandfather and Lily Richler's father was [[Rabbi Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg]], a celebrated rabbi in both Poland and Canada and a prolific author of many religious texts, as well as religious fiction and non-fiction works on science and history geared for religious communities.)

Richler moved to Paris at age nineteen, intent on following in the footsteps of a previous generation of literary exiles, the so-called [[Lost Generation]] of the 1920s, many of whom were from the United States. Richler considered his time in Paris studying and writing at his favourite café, the Mabillon on St. Germain des Prés, as the equivalent of university years.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Foran |first=Charles |title=Mordecai: The Life & Times |date=2010 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf Canada |isbn=978-0-676-97963-3 |location=Toronto |publication-date=2010 |pages=231–235}}</ref>