Morton Weinfeld

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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.
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    Morton Weinfeld
    Born1949 (age 7576)
    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