AWARD

It is with great pleasure that The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies announces EIRAN HARRIS of Montreal the 2010 recipient of the Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award. The ACJS proudly recognizes the exceptional role Eiran Harris has played in preserving and disseminating the history of Jewish Montreal and Canada, and in assisting the research of countless scholars of the Canadian Jewish experience, both amateur and professional.

A close friend of David Rome, one of the country's first bibliographers and archivists of Jewish Canada, Eiran Harris has served as archivist with Montreal's Jewish Public Library since the early 1990s on a volunteer basis. He possesses a vast knowledge of the history of Canadian Jewry and has worked tirelessly to share that knowledge with others.

The executive of the ACJS extends enthusiastic congratulations to Eiran Harris and looks forward to presenting this award to him on the evening of Sunday, May 30, 2010 in Montreal as part of our annual conference.

Dr. Susan J. Landau-Chark
Vice-President, Association for Canadian Jewish Studies

The Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award

Annually or from time to time, as may be appropriate, the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies presents an award honouring an individual, group or institution, who has made significant contribution(s) to Canadian Jewish Studies in one or more fields.

Award Winners

• 2001 - Miriam Waddington (Vancouver)
• 2002 - Rabbi Gunther Plaut (Toronto)
• 2003 - Ruth Goldbloom (Halifax)
• 2004 - Abraham Arnold (Winnipeg)
• 2005 - Professor Gerald Tulchinsky (Kingston) -
              award received in Toronto
• 2006 - Professor Irving Abella (Toronto)
• 2007 - Cyril E. Leonoff (Vancouver) - award received in Saskatoon
• 2008 - Seymour Levitan (Vancouver)
• 2009 - Professor Seymour Mayne (Ottawa)
• 2010 - Eiran Harris (Montreal)

In tribute to the scholarship of Louis Rosenberg, as of 2008 the award will be known as the “Louis Rosenberg Canadian Jewish Studies Distinguished Service Award.”

Louis Rosenberg was a pioneer in the social scientific study of Canada’s Jews. Born in Poland in 1893, he moved with his family to England and studied at Leeds University (B.A., 1914). In 1915 he moved to Canada and, served as the director of settlement of the Jewish Colonization Association between 1919 and 1940. While in Saskatchewan he became active in the CCF and published, under the pseudonym Watt Hugh McCollum, a study of the concentration of wealth in Canada entitled Who Owns Canada? (1935, 1947). In 1939, he published his magnum opus on Canadian Jewry, Canada’s Jews (reprinted, 1993). Using the census data in a comprehensive and profound fashion, Rosenberg had few peers in the area of the study of Canadian demography. In 1945, Rosenberg was appointed to serve as “National Research Director” (and only employee) of the Bureau of Social and Economic Research at Canadian Jewish Congress, and he moved to Montreal. He produced a steady stream of social studies of Canada’s Jews, continuing to use the Canadian census material, but also conducting his own surveys. He wrote the several works of Jewish history, occasionally transcribing long primary sources in the process. His archives are located in both Ottawa (LAC) and Montreal (CJCCC). He died in 1987.

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