Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies
Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies
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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 organization dedicated to advancing public knowledge on the Jewish experience in Canada through scholarship, research, and community engagement.
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The podcast covers diverse topics related to Canadian Jewish life, including Jewish education, community dynamics, and historical perspectives with specific episodes like a discussion on the state of Jewish education in Canada and future strategies.
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 organization dedicated to advancing public knowledge on the Jewish experience in Canada through scholarship, research, and community engagement.
In the second half of the twentieth century, approximately twenty thousand Jews emigrated from North Africa to Canada. Most of them were from Morocco, and most settled in and around Montreal. Yolande Cohen, a historian at the Université du Québec à Montréal and herself a Moroccan Jewish immigrant to Canada (via France), has spent much of her career collecting and analyzing narratives of this migration—its motivations, its traumas, its memories.
Cohen is the author of two new books, Moroccan Jews in France and Canada, and Migrations postcoloniales des Juifs du Maroc: Vers le Canada et la France, both published in 2025, and she joins the show to discuss not only the difficult histories she traces in her work but also the ways in which those histories have been received, challenged, and often ignored by Canada’s Moroccan Jewish community.
You can learn more about Cohen’s personal journey in a bilingual essay she wrote for Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes back in 2024. And don’t forget to check out the ACJS’s new digital archive of the Canadian Jewish Historical Society Journal (1977-1988), also mentioned in this episode!
This episode was produced and edited by Theadora Draper. Original music is by J. K. Bradley. Our executive producers are Joshua Tapper and David Koffman.
Please visit the website of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies to learn more about its work, how it supports the research and study of Canadian Jewish life, and how you can contribute. The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies is based at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University, in Toronto, ON.
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