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]
Morton Weinfeld | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) |
| Spouse | Phyllis Zelkowitz |
| Awards | Canadian Jewish Book Award (1990, 2002) Marshall Sklare Award (2013)[2] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | Determinants of Ethnic Identification of Slavs, Jews, and Italians in Toronto (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nathan Glazer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology |
| Sub-discipline | Sociology of Jewry |
| Institutions | McGill University |
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.