Books

Menkis, Richard and Norman Ravvin, ed. Canadian Jewish Studies Reader. Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2004. 493 pages. Winner of Canadian Jewish Book Award, for Work of Scholarship.

Brown, Michael, Richard Menkis, Benjamin Schlesinger and Stuart Schonfeld. Jews and Judaism in Canada: A Bibliography of Published Works since 1965, Special Issue of Canadian Jewish Studies 7-8 [1999-2000]). Montreal: Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, 2000. xxix+234. pages.

Draper, Paula and Richard Menkis, ed. New Perspectives on Canada, the Holocaust and Survivors, Special issue of  Canadian Jewish Studies 4-5[1996-1997]). Montreal: Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, 1997. xvi+218 pages.

Articles and Chapters in Books

"Jewish Communal Identity at the Crossroads: Early Jewish Responses to Canadian Multiculturalism, 1963-1965." Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 40,3 (September, 2011): 283-292.

(With Harold Troper). "Jews and Canadian Sports, 1900-1950: A Review of the Literature." The Scribe 29 (2009): 45-58.

" 'The Words of the Minister Heard in Words of Exhortation and Instruction': Abraham de Sola and the Jewish Sermon in Victorian Montreal, and Beyond." Jewish History 23 (2009): 117-147.

(With Ira Robinson). "Sermon and Society in the Canadian Jewish Experience." Jewish History 23 (2009): 101-105. 

" 'But you can't see the Fear that People Lived Through': Canadian Jewish Chaplains and Canadian Encounters with Dutch Survivors." American Jewish Archives Journal 60, 1-2 (2008): 24-50.

"Abraham de Sola, a Jewish Publisher in Victorian Montreal." History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du Livre au Canada. Vol. 2 of 3. Ed. Fiona Black and Yvan Lamonde. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 372 - 374.

"Both Peripheral and Central: Towards a History of Reform Judaism in Canada." CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly 51,4 (2004): 24-36.

"‘In this great, happy and enlightened Colony:' Abraham de Sola on Jews, Judaism and Emancipation in Victorian Montreal." L'antisémitisme éclairé: Inclusion et exclusion depuis l'époque des Lumières jusqu'à l'affaire Dreyfus. Inclusion and Exclusion: Perceptions of Jews from the Enlightenment to the Dreyfus Affair. Ed. Ilana Y. Zinguer and Sam W. Bloom. E.J. Brill, 2003. 313 - 331.

"Negotiating Ethnicity, Regionalism and Historiography: Arthur A. Chiel  and The Jews in Manitoba: A Social History." Canadian Jewish Studies/Etudes juives canadiennes 10 (2002): 1 - 31.

"Antisemitism in the Evolving Nation: From New France to 1950." From Immigration to Integration : A Canadian Jewish Yearbook for the Millennium. Ed. Ruth Klein and Frank Diamond. First. Toronto: Bnai Brith in partnership with Canadian Millennium Partnership Program, 2001. Pp. 31 - 51. Also published online.

"A Threefold Transformation: Jewish Studies, Canadian Universities and the Canadian Jewish Community." A Guide to the Study of Jewish Civilization in Canadian Universities. Ed. Michael Brown. First Edition. Jerusalem and Toronto: International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization and the Centre for Jewish Studies at York University, 1998. 43 - 69.

"A Missionary Sermon to the Jews in mid-nineteenth century Montreal: Text and Contexts." The Frank Talmage Memorial Volume. Vol. 1 of 2. Ed. Barry Walfish. Oxford: Haifa University and University Press of New England, 1993. 333 - 349.

Ungerleider, Charles and Richard Menkis. "Family and Ethnicity." Canadian Ethnic Studies 25,3 (1993): 5-7.

"Antisemitism and anti-Judaism in pre-Confederation Canada." Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretation. Ed. Alan T. Davies. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier U. Press, 1992. 11 - 38.

"Historiography, Myth and Group Relations: Jewish and non-Jewish Québécois on the Jews and New France." Canadian Ethnic Studies 23,2 (1991): 24 - 38 (repr. in Canadian Jewish Studies Reader[2004].)

"Patriarchs and Patricians: The Gradis Family of Eighteenth Century Bordeaux." From East and West: Profiles of Jews in a Changing Europe, 1750-1870 [also appeared in 1998]. Ed. Frances Malino and David Sorkin. First. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. 11 - 45.

Encyclopedia Articles

Author or co-author of following articles in Encyclopaedia Judaica. 22 vols. Macmillan Reference USA. 2007. Second Edition:

"Abramowitz, Herman." Vol. 1. 325.
"Becker, Lavy M." Vol. 3. 246.
"Belzberg, Samuel." Vol. 3. 309.
"Cass, Samuel." Vol. 4. 507.
Ben Kayfetz and Richard Menkis, "De Sola." Vol. 5. 603.
"Diamond, Jack." Vol. 5. 633.
Feinberg, Abraham L." Vol. 6. 737.
"Felder, Gedalya." Vol. 6. 745 - 746.
"Gordon, Nathan." Vol. 7. 773 - 774.
"Graubart, Y.L.." Vol. 8. 39.
"Horowitz (Canadian Family)." Vol. 9. 531.
"Jacobs, Solomon." Vol. 11. 51 - 52.
Menkis, Richard et al(Third author of Seven). "Journalism." Vol. 11. 466 - 470.
"Kahanovitch, Israel." Vol. 11. 716 - 717.
Menkis, Richard and Harold Troper. "Ontario." Vol. 15. 434 - 436.
Menkis, Richard et al. (Third author of eleven). "Politics." Vol. 16. 338 - 354.
Menkis, Richard et al. (Third author of Twenty-Three). "Press." Vol. 16. 486 - 505.
"Price, Abraham." Vol. 16. 509.
Kayfetz, Ben and Richard Menkis. "Rhinewine, Abraham." Vol. 17. 274 - 275.
Margolis, Rebecca and Richard Menkis. "Sack, B.G.." Vol. 17. 637 - 638.
Kayfetz, Benjamin and Richard Menkis. "Saskatchewan." Vol. 18. 64 - 65.
"Slonim, Reuben." Vol. 18. 677 - 678.

"Stern, Harry Joshua." Vol. 19. 209.

"Trepman, Paul." Vol. 20. 132 - 133.

Richard Menkis. "Miriam Dworkin Waddington."  Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. (March 23, 2009). [2100 words]. Originally published  in 2005 on CD ROM, now online.

Menkis, Richard and Ronnie Tessler. Canada Responds to the Holocaust, 1944-1945.[CD ROM] (Vancouver: Holocaust Education Centre, 2005),  Also available for download at canadaresponds.ca.

Menkis, Richard and Ronnie Tessler. History of the Jews of British Columbia.[2001] for the Jewish Historical Society of BC 

Museum Exhibition

"More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics." Research and narrative by Richard Menkis and Harold Troper. Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, opened Oct. 15, 2009 until June 2010.

For reviews and descriptions see

• Basya Laye, "Investigating a dark history: Exhibit on 1936 Games provides Olympic Counterpoint," Jewish Independent, Oct. 9, 2009.
• Marsha Lederman, "A Glimpse of Canada at the 1936 Nazi Games," Globe and Mail, Oct. 14, 2009.
• Kevin Griffin, "An Olympics Like No Other," Vancouver Sun, Oct. 14, 2009.
• Interview with Tom Harrington, CBC Radio, As It Happens, Oct. 15, 2009 [Part one].
• Vancouver's Holocaust Centre brings to life '36 Olympics dilemmas. Seattle Times, Jan. 23, 2010.
• Review by  Laura Lamb, Redeye:  Vancouver Co-op Radio, January 15, 2010.
• Adrianne Fitch, "Hitler's Olympics," and Gene Homel, "Berlin, 1936: Signposts on the Road to War." Outlook: Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine (January-February, 2010): 12-14.

 

Other Recent Publications

Richard Menkis and Harold Troper, "A Forgotten Controversy: Canada at the 1936 Olympics." Zachor [Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre] (Fall, 2009): 3-5.

"North of the Border." AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Fall, 2008): 26-28.

"Review of Kirsten Fermaglich, American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965." American Jewish Archives Journal 59, nos. 1-2 (2007): 119-120.

Jones, Faith and Richard Menkis, eds. A Ruekn Zhum=A Gentle Sound: Yiddish as Experience in Canada, In honour of Seymour Levitan. Vancouver: Association for Canadian Jewish Studies, 2008. 41pp,

Menkis, Richard and Harold Troper. "From College St. to Culig St., and back: The Jewish Experience on a Toronto Street." College Street: Toronto's Renaissance Strip. Ed. Denis de Klerck and Corrado Paida. Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2006. 62 - 77.

Menkis, Richard. "Remembering Miriam Waddington." Canadian Jewish Outlook. (May/June 2004): 45 - 45.

"Review of Haim Genizi, The Holocaust, Israel and Canadian Protestant Churches." American Jewish History 90,4 (December, 2002): 461-463.

Editorial Work

Richard Menkis and Ira Robinson, guest editors. "Sermon and Society in the Canadian Jewish Experience." Jewish History 23 (2009): 101-217. Special issue jointly published by Jewish History and the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.

Divisional co-editor (with Harold Troper) for "Canada" in the second edition of the Encyclopaedia  Judaica, commissioning and editing app. 240 articles, a near-complete reworking from the first edition.

Founding editor, Canadian Jewish Studies/Etudes juives canadiennes, 1993-2000.

Richard Menkis and Charles Ungerleider, guest editors. "Family and Ethnicity in Canada." Special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies 25,3 (1993). 

Conference Presentations (Past Five Years)

November, 2011. Invited lecturer and panelist. Getting it Right: Accurately Representing Canada's Relationship to Nazi Germany. Presented at Holocaust Education Week, Toronto, Ontario.

September, 2011. Invited respondent to Doris Bergen, Robert Jan van Pelt, Dan Michman, and Michael Marrus. Symposium: The Holocaust in Western Europe: History, Historiography and Memory. University of Toronto, Organized by Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies, Department of History and Joint Initiative for German and European Studies.

May, 2011. Multiculturalism and the re-amateurization of Canadian Jewish History. Presented at Symposium on History, Memory and Jewish Identity. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

June, 2010. Maurice Eisendrath, Nazi Germany and Political Tourism, 1933-1935. Presented to Association for Canadian Jewish Studies; Conference, Montreal, Quebec. 

June, 2009.   Tilting at Windmills: Canada’s Response to the ‘Nazi Olympics.’ (With Harold Troper). Invited lecture to conference The St Louis Era: Looking Backward, Looking Forward. Organized by Bnai Brith Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Toronto, Ontario.

May, 2009.     Tensions in the Canadian Movement to Boycott the‘Nazi Olympics.’ (With Harold Troper). Presented to Association for Canadian Jewish Studies; Conference, Ottawa, Ontario.

June 2008.     David Rome in Vancouver: The Historian as Young Man. Presented to Association for Canadian Jewish Studies; Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Dec.  2007    Multiculturalism and the Writing of Canadian Jewish History. Presented to the Association for Jewish Studies; Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Oct. 2007    A.M. Klein and Jewish Youth Cultures in interwar Canada. Presented to: A.M. Klein Conference; Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Oct. 2007    New Growth in Canadian Jewish Historiography: Gerald Tulchinsky's Taking Root and Branching Out. Presented to Celebration of Jewish Studies in Ottawa Conference;  Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

May, 2007    Prolegomenon to a Historiographical Analysis of Narratives of the Canadian Jewish Experience. Presented to: Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Dec. 2006    Jewish Preparations for Civvy Street: Teaching Judaism to Canadian Soldiers in the Liberated Netherlands, 1945. Presented to: Association for Jewish Studies; Conference; San Diego, California, United States.

July 2006    Warfront, Homefront and Canadian Jewish Assistance to Dutch Survivors, 1944-1946. Presented to: Hebrew University, Jerusalem; 11th Biennial Jerusalem Conference in Canadian Studies, Jerusalem, Israel.