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B’nai Brith Canada announces participation of eight eminent scholars in major research project for the National Holocaust Task ForcePosted On 02/19/10
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
B’nai Brith Canada announces participation of eight eminent scholars in major research project for the National Holocaust Task Force
TORONTO, February 19, 2010 – B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to announce the names of eight prominent Canadian academics, who will be conducting original research on the St. Louis era for the National Holocaust Task Force. The Task Force is a centralized body, operating under the auspices of B’nai Brith’s League for Human Rights, which brings together scholars, legal experts and educators with Holocaust survivors and Jewish community stakeholders, in an effort to share and enhance the important research and educational work being done in Canada.
“These scholars have been chosen because of their particular areas of expertise and acknowledged track record of academic excellence,” said Professor Alain Goldschläger, Ontario Chair of the League for Human Rights, and Chair of the National Task Force. “We will publish their research in a special volume that will add to exiting scholarship on a difficult era in Canadian history, and encourage further avenues of enquiry.”
The academics are:
Professor Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of History, University of Toronto
Professor Michael Brown, Department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, York University
Professor Amanda Grzyb, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
Professor Rebecca Margolis, Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Institute of Canadian Studies, University of Ottawa
Professor Richard Menkis, Department of History, University of British Columbia
Professor Norm Ravvin, Department of Religion; Chair, Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University
Professor Harold Troper, Department of Theory and Policy Studies in Education, OISE/University of Toronto
Professor James Walker, Department of History, University of Waterloo
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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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