A keynote address and day-long symposium devoted to serious discussion of the audacious question:
"Has there ever been a better home for Jews... than Canada?"

Sunday October 22: Keynote Address
2017 Harry S. Crow Lecture by Morton Weinfeld, McGill University
6:30pm - Schulich School of Business, Room 106x
Reception: 8:00pm - Schulich Private Dining Room

Monday October 23: Symposium
Presentations: 9:00am - 4:30pm
Location: Kaneff Research Tower, Room 519

By certain measures, Canada is and has been the safest, most socially welcoming, economically secure, and possibly most religiously tolerant home for the Jews than perhaps any other country, past or present. Might Canada be among the best homes that Jews have ever had, or even the single best home?

Prominent Jewish Studies scholars - including some of the leading Canadian Jewish Studies scholars - will come together and bring their formidable intellects, their range of disciplinary perspectives, and their diverse areas of expertise to bear on taking Canada seriously.

This event is sponsored by the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University; The York University Canada150 Fund; The departments of History, Humanities, and Politics at York University; The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies.

This event is free and open to the public.