The Department of History congratulates Kalman Weiser, Silber Chair in Modern Jewish East European and Holocaust Studies, for winning the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship for his recently published book, Jewish People, Yiddish Nation: Noah Prylucki and the Folkists in Poland (University of Toronto Press, 2011).
The award will be presented on Thursday, June 7, 2012, 8 p.m., The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon at the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge St.).