Editorial Team

David S. Koffman, Editor-in-Chief

David S. Koffman (PhD, NYU, 2011) is the J. Richard Shiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry, and an associate professor in the Department of History at York University. He is the author of The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America (Rutgers University Press, 2019), the editor of and a contributor to No Better Home?: Jews, Canada, and the Sense of Belonging (University of Toronto Press, 2021), a co-editor and co-contributor to Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation (Brill Press, 2024), and numerous articles, book chapters, and essays. He serves as the associate director of York's Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, the executive producer of the podcast Tête-à-tête: Conversations in Canadian Jewish Studies, and the publisher of Parchment: A Journal of Contemporary Canadian Jewish Writing.

Joshua Tapper, Managing Editor

Joshua Tapper is a research associate at York University's Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies and a doctoral candidate in Jewish History at Stanford University, where his dissertation explores the impact of perestroika-era reforms on the Jews of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s. His scholarship on the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora has appeared in Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes. As a journalist, he has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Tablet, the Jewish Daily Forward, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, among other publications. He serves as executive director of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.

Amir Lavie, Associate Editor, Digital 

Amir holds a PhD from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information. With an academic background in Jewish history and media studies, Amir oversees the journal’s website interface and aims to increase the journal's digital outreach. Amir currently works at the Archives of Ontario. 

Valentina Gaddi, Associate Editor, French

Valentina Gaddi is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Université de Montréal and an IRTG-Diversity scholar. Her thesis, based on three years of ethnographic research, explores the construction of gender among Hasidic Jewish women in Montréal. More broadly, her academic interests focus on the place of pious citizens in democratic societies. She is the co-creator of the podcast Ma-Nishtana and the coordinator of the Collectif Judéité(s) at Université de Montréal.

Vardit Lightstone, Associate Editor, Book Reviews (English)

Vardit Lightstone is an archivist at the National Library of Israel and a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in 2022 from the University of Toronto jointly with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on migrant identity formation, folk literature, Yiddish folklore, Canadian Jewish culture, and representations of North American Indigenous peoples in Yiddish literature.

Janice Rosen, Editor, Archives Matter 

Janice Rosen has been the Archives Director since 1989 of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives, formerly known as the Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives. Her publications include various surveys of Canadian Jewish archival resources and repositories for Canadian Jewish Studies. She is a co-creator of the Canadian Jewish Heritage Network, a database-driven website showcasing the holdings of several partner Archives and Museums.

Editorial Board (2025-2028)

Yolande Cohen, Université du Québec à Montréal

Megan Hollinger, University of Ottawa

Richard Menkis, University of British Columbia

Ruth Panofsky, Toronto Metropolitan University

Norman Ravvin, Concordia University

Jesse Toufexis, University of Ottawa