In celebration of Jewish Heritage Month, please join Prof. Richard Menkis for “Constant Cravings: A Jewish Canadian Culinary Journey,” at noon on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 in Buchanan Tower 323. The presentation will include a smorgasbord of cookbooks, foods and restaurants that demonstrate the diversity—sometimes contentious—within the Canadian Jewish community.  The talk will also serve as a “test kitchen” for documents that may be included in a forthcoming reader about Canadian Jewish life.

Open to all. No RSVP required. Snacks will be served!

Richard Menkis teaches Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at the University of British Columbia. His publications include, with Harold Troper, More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics (2015) and, with Pierre Anctil, In a Land of Hope: Documents on the Canadian Jewish Experience, vol. 1 (2023). Anctil and Menkis are currently preparing volume 2. In 2018, he won the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies’ Louis Rosenberg Distinguished Lifetime Service Award, and in 2023 the Dean of Arts Award “for his outstanding contributions to the Faculty of Arts.”

This in-person event is sponsored by the Jewish Academic Alliance of BC, a registered society.