{{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Morton Weinfeld | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1949}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada<ref name=weinfeld_2001>{{cite book|title=Like Everyone Else... but Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews|location=Toronto|publisher=McClelland & Stewart|date=2001|url=https://archive.org/details/likeeveryoneelse0000wein/|pages=9}}</ref> | occupation = | period = | title = | spouse = {{ill|Phyllis Zelkowitz|qid=Q88606731}} | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = Canadian Jewish Book Award (1990, 2002)<br>Marshall Sklare Award (2013)<ref>{{cite web|title=Awards|website=Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry|access-date=31 July 2022|url=https://contemporaryjewry.org/awards/}}</ref> | website = | alma_mater = Harvard University | thesis_title = Determinants of Ethnic Identification of Slavs, Jews, and Italians in Toronto | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 1977 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = Nathan Glazer | era = | discipline = Sociology | sub_discipline = Sociology of Jewry | workplaces = McGill University | doctoral_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = }} {{Short description|Canadian sociologist}} '''Morton Irwin Weinfeld''' (born 1949) is a Canadian sociologist, who has conducted studies on Canadian Jewry.<ref>{{cite book|title=Canadian Who's Who|volume=47|editor-first=Elizabeth|editor-last=Lumley|location=Toronto|publisher=University of Toronto Press|date=2012}}</ref> He is chair in Canadian ethnic studies and former chairman of the sociology department at McGill University.<ref>{{cite web|title=International Academic Board of Advisors: Professor Morton Weinfeld|website=Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy|access-date=31 July 2022|url=https://isgap.org/about/international-academic-board-of-advisors/professor-morton-weinfeld/}}</ref>
Weinfeld was born to Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors and raised in Montreal.<ref name=reflection>{{cite journal|last=Weinfeld|first=M.|date=2020|title=Reflection|journal=Canadian Jewish Studies |volume=30|pages=174–176|doi=10.25071/1916-0925.40192|s2cid=241370076 |url=https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/download/40192/36359/49749|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Partial bibliography== * {{cite book|title=Like Everyone Else... but Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews|location=Toronto|publisher=McClelland & Stewart|date=2001|url=https://archive.org/details/likeeveryoneelse0000wein/}} * {{cite book|title=Still Moving: Recent Jewish Migration in Comparative Perspective|location=New Brunswick, N.J. & London|publisher=Transaction|date=2000}} With Daniel Elazar. * {{cite book|title=Ethnicity, Politics, and Public Policy|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|date=1999}} With Harold Troper. * {{cite book|title=Who Speaks for Canada|location=Toronto|publisher=McClelland & Stewart|date=1998}} With Desmond Morton. * {{cite book|title=The Jews in Canada|location=Toronto|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1993}} Edited with Robert Brym and William Shaffir. * {{cite book|title=Trauma and Rebirth: Intergenerational Effects of the Holocaust|location=New York|publisher=Praeger Press|date=1989}} With John J. Sigal. * {{cite book|title=Old Wounds: Jews, Ukrainians and the Hunt for Nazi War Criminals in Canada|publisher=Viking/Penguin|date=1988}} With Harold Troper. * {{cite book|title=The Canadian Jewish Mosaic|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=Rexdale, Ontario|date=1981|isbn=9780471799290 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadianjewishmo0000unse/mode/2up}} With William Shaffir and Irwin Cotler.
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weinfeld, Morton}} Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Ethnic studies in Canada Category:Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Jewish Canadian sociologists Category:Canadian sociologists Category:McGill University alumni Category:Academic staff of McGill University Category:People from Montreal
{{Canada-sociologist-stub}}