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The Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies
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Dr. Frank Chalk,
History
Teaching: History of Genocide; The Holocaust; U.S. Foreign
Relations; History of Africa
Research: Impact of the Holocaust on the Identity of
Jews in Canada; Contributions of Canadian Holocaust
Survivors to Canadian Jewish Life & the Larger Canadian
Society
Dr. Frank Chalk
is a board member and a former Chair of the Montreal
Holocaust Memorial Centre. He is currently teaching
courses on the History and Sociology of Genocide for
the Departments of History, which are cross-listed with
the Departments of Sociology & Anthropology, and
Political Science. Dr. Chalk lectures widely for groups
interested in the history of genocide, the Holocaust,
and human rights.
drfrank@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr. Karin Doerr, Modern Languages and Linguistics
Karin Doerr teaches German culture, language and literature, as well as women’s and genocide studies at Concordia University, where she is also an Associate of the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Women’s Studies. She is a member of the English Culture Committee at the Jewish Public Library and a consultant to the website Women and the Holocaust. She has published and presented internationally on literary responses to the Shoah, on German literary antisemitism, on feminist issues regarding genocide, and on the integration of the Holocaust into German Studies. Karin Doerr has worked with Holocaust survivors from Canada and Israel and translated and edited their writings. Her main focus is language use and impact of the Third Reich. With American historian Robert Michael, she co-authored the reference work English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich. She has also published a German dictionary study with Prof. Kurt Jonassohn. On several occasions, she has lectured in China, together with Professor Gary Evans, on Canadian Women’s Studies and literature and film by Canadian women.
kdoerr@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr. Bina Toledo Freiwald,
English
Research: Contemporary Literature; Biography and Autobiography
bina@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr. Kurt Jonassohn,
Sociology & Anthropology
We are deeply sorry to lose Dr. Kurt Jonassohn. Please see the Montreal Institute of Genocide Studies for a detailed obituary: http://migs.concordia.ca/documents/KurtsObituaryCORRECTED.pdf
Teaching: Genocide and Human Rights
Research: Comparative Analysis of Genocides & Human
Rights Violations
Dr. Kurt Jonassohn,
Professor of Sociology, is a founding member and Co-Director
of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights
Studies(MIGS). He has published, with Frank Chalk, The
History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case
Studies, and, with Karin Solveig Björnson, Genocide and Human Rights Violations in Comparative
Perspective, in addition to journal articles and
book chapters. He is also a Contributing Editor to the Encyclopedia of Genocide. He is currently involved,
with Professor Mervin Butovsky, in collecting unpublished
Holocaust Survivor Memoirs that are available at the
Concordia University Archives and on the Institute web
site (migs.concordia.ca).
kurtj@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Norma Baumel Joseph, Religion
Teaching: Women & Judaism; Women & Religion;
Ethics & Jewish Law; Modern Judaism
Research: Canadian Jewish Women; Iraqi Jewish Women
of Montreal; Jewish Law as it Reflects & Responds
to Women's Lives; The Intersection of Feminist &
Judaic Representations of Women in the Bible
Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Dr. Norma Baumel Joseph is also the Director of the Women and Religion specialization, the Graduate Program Director of the Doctoral Program in Religion, and is a past Chair of the Department of Religion. Her teaching and research areas include women
and Judaism, Jewish law and ethics, and women and religion.
Dr. Joseph appeared
in and was consultant to the films, Half The Kingdom and Untying the Bonds...Jewish Divorce. Her
doctoral dissertation focused on the legal decisions
of Rabbi Moses Feinstein, as they describe and delineate
separate spheres for women in the Jewish community.
Since the early 1970's, she has promoted women's greater
participation in Jewish religious and communal life.
Founding member of the Canadian Coalition of Jewish
Women for the Get (Jewish divorce), Dr. Joseph successfully
worked with the community and the Federal Government
to pass a law in 1990 (Divorce Act, ch.18, 21.1) that
would protect Jewish women in difficult divorce situations
and aid them in their pursuit of a Jewish divorce.
Author of many publications,
Norma Baumel Joseph has received numerous awards and
grants in recognition of her scholarly and pedagogical
talents.
nojo@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr.
Michael Oppenheim, Religion
Teaching: Modern Jewish Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion;
Modern Jewish History
Research: Issues of Jewish Identity; 20th Century Jewish
Philosophy (particularly Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel
Levinas & Feminist Judaism).
Dr. Oppenheim is Past Chair of
the Department of Religion.
oppm@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr.
Ira Robinson, Religion
Teaching: Canadian Jewish Experience; Medieval Jewish
History & Thought; North American Judaism
Research: Constitutional Documents of Canadian Jewish
Communities; Medieval Jewish Thought; North American
Jewish History
Dr.
Ira Robinson is a Professor of Judaic Studies in the
Department of Religion at Concordia University. He received
his B.A. at Johns Hopkins University (Maryland), his
B.H.L. at Baltimore Hebrew College (Maryland), his M.A.
at Columbia University (New York)and his Ph.D. in Near
Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University
(Massachusetts). He has taught at Concordia University
since 1979 and has served as Chair of the Department
of Religion.
Dr. Robinson has
edited Cyrus Adler: Selected Letters (2 volumes,
1985), which won the Kenneth Smilen Award for Judaica
non-fiction. He has also co-edited The Thought of
Maimonides: Philosophical and Legal Studies (1990), An Everyday Miracle: Yiddish Culture in Montreal (1990), The Interaction of Scientific and Judaic
Cultures (1994) and Renewing Our Days: Montreal
Jews in the Twentieth Century (1995), which won
a Toronto Jewish Book Award. He has published Moses
Cordovero's Introduction to Kabbala: An Annotated
Translation of His Or Ne'erav (1994). His most
recent publication is Juifs et Canadiens Français
dans la société Québécoise (2000), which he co-edited.
Dr. Robinson has
published over forty articles in journals such as Studies
in Religion, Jewish Social Studies, American Jewish
History, American Jewish Archives, Jewish Quarterly
Review, Judaism, Modern Judaism, Canadian Ethnic Studies
and Canadian Jewish Studies.
He is Past President
of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies (formerly
the Canadian Jewish Historical Society), as well as
the Jewish Public Library of Montreal.
robinso@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr. Stephen Scheinberg, History
Research: Right-Wing Extremism; Anti-Semitism in the U.S. & Canada, Israel and the Palestinians.
Dr. Stephen Scheinberg retired in 2003 as Professor in the History Department at Concordia University, where he taught American history for 40 years. In later years, he specialized in the history of, as well as current developments, in anti-Semitism. He co-edited and contributed to the 1997 book, The Extreme Right: Freedom and Security at Risk, and his article "From Self-Help to Advocacy" appeared in the 2001 study of Canadian Jews From Immigration to Integration.
He served on two separate occasions as Chair of the Concordia History Department. He is currently a Vice-President of B'nai Brith Canada and Chair of its Montreal Board. Professor Scheinberg is co-Chair of Canadian Friends of Peace Now.
drsteve@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr. Sherry Simon,
French Studies
Research: French Literature; Quebec
Literature
simon@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr. Loren Lerner,
Art History
Loren Lerner is Professor and Chair, Art History. In her undergraduate and graduate teaching on ethnic, diasporic and ethical consciousness in North American art-making and in her curatorial practice she focuses on Jewish art and Canadian Jewish artists. Lerner was contributing editor for Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature/Rémanences: Evocations de l'Holocauste dans les arts et littérature canadiens contemporains (Montreal: Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2002) and guest curator of Memories and Testimonies/Memoires et Témoignages (Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, April 2002, travelling exhibition). In 2005, Lerner curated the Sam Borenstein retrospective exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
loren.lerner@sympatico.ca
(514) 848-2424 ext 4698
Office location: EV-3.820
lorenle@alcor.concordia.ca |
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Dr. Graham Carr. Associate Dean.
Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science
Graham.Carr@concordia.ca |
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Dr. Shelley Z. Reuter, Sociology and Anthropology
Prior to joining Concordia University in 2003, Dr. Reuter taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland and at Queen’s University in Kingston, where she also earned her Ph.D. (2001). Dr. Reuter has several peer-reviewed publications, including articles in leading international journals, book chapters, and a book. She is currently engaged in SSHRC and FQRSC funded research on medical racialism, Jewish immigration, and the history of Tay-Sachs disease. Dr. Reuter’s main scholarly contribution has been in the sociology of medicine, however her work is largely interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of history, sociology, geography, anthropology, science, women’s and cultural studies. The focus of her research primarily has been on psychiatry and genetics, with specific emphasis on the production of medical knowledge in relation to disease and cultural classifications, racialisation, gender, contemporary and feminist theories, and embodiment. She has also begun a new research project, which ventures into the area of reproductive choice, work, family, and social policy, with specific emphasis on the issue of motherhood and academia.
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