Biography
Leo
Davids was born July, 1938 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.His
education was received in New York City.After
earning his Ph.D. in 1968, he moved to Toronto, where he is an Associate
Professor of Sociology at York University’s Atkinson Faculty.He
served as the Department’s Chairperson, July 1991 to December 31, 1994.
Faigie
and Leo have four children, all now married (and 8 grandchildren).The
family spent 1974-75 and 1981-82 on Sabbatical in Israel, where Dr. Davids
taught at Bar-Ilan and at Tel-Aviv University.Most
of his scholarly research, during the past decade and more, has focused
on Jewish Demography (=population studies, looking at marriage and divorce
trends, language use, birth rates and similar statistics, to ascertain
and interpret their changes.)
In
November 1994, he was honoured with the Excellence in Teaching award by
the Atkinson College Alumni Association.His
writings have been published in Adolescence, American Jewish
Yearbook, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Child Welfare Journal
of Jewish Communal Service, and Journal of Marriage and the Family.An
abbreviated report of his research on Jewish lone-parent families was published
in December 1999, by Toronto’s Jewish Family and Child Service; his article
on “Yiddish and Hebrew in Canada” was published this past spring in Canadian
Ethnic Studies.
In
the new School of Social Sciences at Atkinson (which combines the former
Departments of Geography, Political Science, and Sociology), Dr. Davids
serves as Undergraduate Program Director/Vice Chair-person.
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