Richard Menkis
Richard Menkis is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches Jewish history. He was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes. Special issues of that journal included New Perspectives on Canada: The Holocaust and Survivors, co–edited with Paula Draper, as well as Jews and Judaism in Canada: A Bibliography of Works Published After 1965, co–compiled with Michael Brown, Ben Schlesinger and Stuart Schoenfeld. A native of Toronto, Richard Menkis has published on anti-Semitism in Canada and on the history of Canadian Jewish identities. His current research focuses on historical writing and historical memory in the Canadian Jewish community. He has served as Scholar-in-Residence at Concordia University's Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, as well as a fellow at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati.