Morton Weinfeld | |
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75) |
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]