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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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