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ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN JEWISH
STUDIES HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME/TOME 2
(1994)
Nurit Barkan-Ascher was born and
grew up in Israel. She holds a B.A. from the University of Minnesota and an
M.A. in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia
(1992).Currently living in Vancouver, she is a psychotherapist in private
practice, specializing in life transitions, trauma and resiliency.
Craig Chouinard is a graduate
student at the University of New Brunswick, and has recently completed his M.A.
thesis in Atlantic Canadian Labour History. A native of New Saint John, he
conducted research on the history of the Saint John Jewish community under the
auspices of the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum.
Ben Kayfetz, now retired,
was Executive Director of the Joint Community Relations Committee (initially
called the Joint Public Relations Committee) of Canadian Jewish Congress and
B’nai Brith from 1947-1984, and is the author of a number of articles on the
Jewish community of Toronto.
Ruth Linn is Senior
Lecturer at Haifa University’s School of Education, specializing in the study
of moral transitions. Her most recent work is Conscience at War: The Israeli
Soldier as Moral Critic
Norman Ravvin, a native of
Calgary, teaches contemporary
literature at Erindale College, University of Toronto. He has published
on Leonard Cohen, Philip Roth, Edgar Allan Poe and Bruno Schulz. His novel, Café
des Westens, won the Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism New Fiction
Award.
Ray Shankman, born in
Toronto, has taught at Lakehead University, Ben Gurion University and for the
past twenty-one years has been at Vanier College, where he teaches English
(Bible and Poetry) and coordinates Jewish Studies. He has published poetry in
various journals and small magazines in the U.S. and Canada, and has written
articles on the Bible. He has also published one book of poems, For Love of
the Wind.