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Calendar Speakers' Biographies Harold Troper
Calendar Speakers' Biographies Harold Troper
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Harold Troper is a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the University of Toronto. He teaches on the history of immigration and ethnic relations in Canada and has a special interest in Canadian Jewish history. Professor Troper is author or co-author of many scholarly articles and award winning books including Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience; None Is Too Many and Old Wounds. His latest book, The Ransomed of God was recently reissued in paperback under the title The Rescuer and he has a new book entitled The Pivotal Decade: Identity, Politics and the Canadian Jewish Community in the 1960s forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press. Currently Professor Troper is completing a research project with Professor Richard Menkis of the University of British Columbia on the Canadian Jewish community’s engagement with the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the ‘Nazi Olympics’. |