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Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies

Association for Canadian Jewish Studies

Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies features dynamic, informative, and always thought-provoking scholarly discussions about new research published in the journal Canadian Jewish Studies. Join host Jonathan Slater as he talks with leading scholars, journalists, Jewish community leaders, and more, to unpack the big ideas driving the study of Canadian Jewish life—past, present, and future. Tête-à-tête is a production of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, the first and only

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Episode 08: Canadian Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, with...

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2025/12/26

In 2025, the Azrieli Foundation's landmark Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program (HSMP) celebrated its twentieth year in existence. To mark the occasion, the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes brought together six scholars, along with HSMP managing editor Arielle Berger, for a robust conversation that reflects on the educational, cultural, and moral legacy of the program. On this episode of Tête-à-tête, host Jonathan Slater sits down with two of those scholars, Carson Phillips

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Episode 07: Documenting Canadian Jewish History, with...

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2025/11/28

Last year, two of the leading historians of Jewish Canada, Pierre Anctil and Richard Menkis, published In a "Land of Hope": Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, volume 1, 1627-1923, a landmark collection of primary sources. Thanks to the generous support of York University's J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and the University of British Columbia's Open Access Fund, the volume's publisher, The Champlain Society, has made all of the primary sources freely available to

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Episode 06: Jewish Canada by the Numbers, with Robert...

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2025/10/24

Over the past couple of years, no scholar has tried to understand what makes Canadian Jews tick with greater energy and enthusiasm than the sociologist Robert Brym. Since publishing his groundbreaking post-October 7 report, "Jews and Israel 2024: A Survey of Canadian Attitudes and Jewish Perceptions," in the spring of 2024, Brym has gone on to produce similarly pioneering research on Jewish intermarriage and continuity; visible, Indigenous, and gender minorities within Canadian Jewry; and

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Episode 05: Canadian Jews, from the Age of...

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2025/09/22

In this special episode, host Jonathan Slater passes the microphone to historian David S. Koffman, the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, for a solo reading of his excellent essay, "Two Inward Turns: Canadian Jews Since Multiculturalism, Since October 8, and Since Trump’s Annexationist Threat," which appeared in the summer 2025 volume of Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, published by the Shalom Hartman Institute. We want to express our gratitude to the Shalom Hartman

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Episode 04: Revising Helen Weinzweig, with Ruth Panofsky

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2025/08/26

Ruth Panofsky, a writer, literary scholar, and professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, sits down with host Jonathan Slater to examine the making of renowned Canadian Jewish writer Helen Weinzweig's seminal 1989 short story "My Mother's Luck." Working with material from Weinzweig's estate and the author's papers at the University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Ruth traces the story's evolution and examines Weinzweig's writing process in volume 40 of Canadian Jewish

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Episode 03: Post-Holocaust Yiddish Primers for...

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2025/07/16

In this episode we speak with Miriam Borden, a doctoral candidate in Yiddish studies at the University of Toronto and contributor to the summer 2024 volume of Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes, which is devoted entirely to the field of Jewish education. Miram chats with host Jonathan Slater about her article, "Joshua, King David, and the Flying Nun: Doodles and Reader Annotations in Post-Holocaust Yiddish Primers for Children," which unpacks what the (often vulgar) marginalia that

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Episode 02: Chava Rosenfarb, a Centennial Celebration...

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2025/04/28

"If you have not been to Łódź you cannot imagine its texture, the strange uniqueness of its streetscape...." In this episode we speak with Norman Ravvin, writer, literary scholar, Concordia University professor, and contributor to the fall 2024 volume of Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes. Norm discusses with host Jonathan Slater his essay, "City, Writer, Conference: A Chava Rosenfarb Conference in Łódź, Poland, October 2023," a moving on-the-ground report from Łódź, where he

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Episode 01: The State of Jewish Education in Canada,...

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2025/03/12

In this episode we speak with Daniel Held, co-editor of the special summer 2024 volume of Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes, which dives into the many varieties of Jewish education in Canada, past, present, and future. Dan, the chief program officer for the United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto and executive director of the Julia and Henry Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Education, discusses current trends challenging Jewish educational institutions and programs and shares his

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Trailer: Introducing Tête-à-tête: Conversations in...

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2025/03/12

Welcome to Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies, a new podcast from the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies. Join host Jonathan Slater, an emeritus professor of communications based in Montreal, each month for incisive and thought-provoking conversations with scholars, journalists, curators, and more, whose work fills the pages of the ACJS's flagship journal, Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes. Please visit the website of the Association for Canadian Jewish

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