David S. Koffman is the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, and an associate professor in the Department of History at York University where he teaches courses including History’s Greatest Hits, Making Money, A Convenient Hatred: Antisemitism Before, During and After the Holocaust, History of Me: The Genealogy Seminar, Worry and Wonder: Jewish Politics, Religion and Culture in Canada, and God/USA: Religion in American Life Since 1491. He is the author of The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America (Rutgers University Press, 2019), the editor of and a contributor to No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging (University of Toronto Press, 2021), a co-editor and co-contributor to Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation (Brill Press, 2024), and numerous articles, book chapters, and essays. He serves as the associate director of York’s Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, the editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes, the executive producer of the podcast Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies, and the publisher of Parchment: A Journal of Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing.
June 2, 2026
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