Morton Weinfeld

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 75–76) Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1]
Spouse	Phyllis Zelkowitz [Wikidata]
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.