Morton Weinfeld

Morton Weinfeld
Born1949 (age 75–76)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1]
SpousePhyllis Zelkowitz [Wikidata]
AwardsCanadian Jewish Book Award (1990, 2002)
Marshall Sklare Award (2013)[2]
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University
ThesisDeterminants of Ethnic Identification of Slavs, Jews, and Italians in Toronto (1977)
Doctoral advisorNathan Glazer
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-disciplineSociology of Jewry
InstitutionsMcGill University

Morton Irwin Weinfeld (born 1949) is a Canadian sociologist, who has conducted studies on Canadian Jewry.[3] He is chair in Canadian ethnic studies and former chairman of the sociology department at McGill University.[4]

Weinfeld was born to Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors and raised in Montreal.[5]

Partial bibliography

  • Like Everyone Else... but Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. 2001.
  • Still Moving: Recent Jewish Migration in Comparative Perspective. New Brunswick, N.J. & London: Transaction. 2000. With Daniel Elazar.
  • Ethnicity, Politics, and Public Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1999. With Harold Troper.
  • Who Speaks for Canada. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. 1998. With Desmond Morton.
  • The Jews in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1993. Edited with Robert Brym and William Shaffir.
  • Trauma and Rebirth: Intergenerational Effects of the Holocaust. New York: Praeger Press. 1989. With John J. Sigal.
  • Old Wounds: Jews, Ukrainians and the Hunt for Nazi War Criminals in Canada. Viking/Penguin. 1988. With Harold Troper.
  • The Canadian Jewish Mosaic. Rexdale, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons. 1981. ISBN 9780471799290. With William Shaffir and Irwin Cotler.

References

  1. ^ Like Everyone Else... but Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. 2001. p. 9.
  2. ^ "Awards". Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  3. ^ Lumley, Elizabeth, ed. (2012). Canadian Who's Who. Vol. 47. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  4. ^ "International Academic Board of Advisors: Professor Morton Weinfeld". Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  5. ^ Weinfeld, M. (2020). "Reflection". Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes. 30: 174–176. doi:10.25071/1916-0925.40192. S2CID 241370076.


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