Morton Weinfeld | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 (age 75–76) |
| Spouse | Phyllis Zelkowitz |
| 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 |
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]
Weinfeld was born to Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors and raised in Montreal. [5]