No Better Home? The History of Canadian Jews’ Intersections with First Nations History
February 13,
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Speaker(s):David Koffman (York University)
The North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes David Koffman (York University), to discuss his paper: "No Better Home? The History of Canadian Jews' Intersections with First Nations History."
David S. Koffman is a cultural and social historian of Canadian and U.S. Jewries. He holds the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry and an associate professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto. His first book, The Jews' Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America, won a 2020 Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer Book Award. His newest book project, an edited volume entitled No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging, was published by the University of Toronto Press in early 2021. He serves as the Associate Director of York's Israel & Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, and as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes.
