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.
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 antisemitism in Ontario’s K-12 school system, among other topics.
Brym’s fascination with the sociology of Canadian Jewry dates back decades, and for his larger body of work the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies awarded him its Louis Rosenberg Distinguished Service Award in 2025. In this episode, Brym reflects on his recent findings with host Jonathan Slater while looking ahead to even more vital contributions, including a study on Jewish voting patterns in the 2025 Canadian federal election, coming out in the months ahead.
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 entire catalogue of Canadian Jewish Studies/ Études juives canadiennes, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to original scholarship that illuminates any and all aspects of the Canadian Jewish experience, is free to read online. 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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