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B’nai Brith Canada pleased to announce appointment of three noted Quebec academics to Advisory Board of National Holocaust Task ForcePosted On 10/05/09
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B’nai Brith Canada pleased to announce appointment of three noted Quebec academics to Advisory Board of National Holocaust Task Force
TORONTO, October 5, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of three noted Quebec academics to the Advisory Board of the National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research. Professor Frédéric Guillaume Dufour from the Université du Québec á Montréal, Professor Steven High from Concordia University, and Professor Marie McAndrew from the Université de Montréal will join Allan Adel, National Chair of the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, and Alice Herscovitch, Director of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, as the members of the Advisory Board from Quebec.
Professor Dufour is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Amongst his ground-breaking research is a study entitled, Toward a Socio-Historical Theory of Persecution and an Analytical Concept of Genocide. He has lectured in Canada and in Europe about the challenges of teaching the Holocaust from the perspectives of different countries.
Professor High is the Canada Research Chair in Public History at Concordia University. He is co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and is the principal investigator in a five-year oral history project called Life Stories Montreal, which works with Montrealers displaced by war, genocide and other human-rights violations.
Professor McAndrew, Canada Research Chair in Education and Ethnic Relations at the Université de Montréal, holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Education and specializes in the education of minorities and intercultural education. She has worked extensively in research, policy development and evaluation, and was an advisor to the Bouchard-Taylor Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences.
“We are pleased to welcome such distinguished Quebec scholars to our Holocaust Task Force Advisory Board,” said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada. “Their expertise will greatly enhance our new national initiative.”
The National Task Force on Holocaust Research, Remembrance and Education is a centralized body, operating under the auspices of B’nai Brith Canada, that will bring together scholars, legal experts and educators with Holocaust survivors and Jewish community stakeholders in an effort to share and enhance the important Holocaust research and educational work being done in Canada.
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For more information, please contact, Dan Rabkin, Communications Officer:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 416-312-9173
B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
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