Jock Lehr
Title: Professor emeritus
Email: j.lehr@uwinnipeg.ca
Research Interests:
Ukrainian settlement in Western Canada.
Hutterite settlement in Western Canada.
Ukrainian settlements in South America.
Communal settlements in Canada and Israel.
Provincial parks in Manitoba.
Publications:
Books:
Katz, Y., and Lehr J. 2012. Inside the Ark: The Hutterites in Canada and the United States. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 432p.
Lehr, J. 2011. Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 261p.
Lehr, J., and McDowell D. 2011. Trailblazers: the Lives and Times of Michael and Muriel (Smith) Ewanchuk. Winnipeg: Carpathia Publishing, 226p.
Chapters in books:
Lehr, J. 2019. The Jewish Colonization Association in Western Canada, in Roy Jones and Alexandre A.M. Diniz (eds), Twentieth Century Land Settlement Schemes, London: Routledge, 48-66.
Katz, Y. and Lehr, J. 2012. Gender, power and equality: Women's roles in Hutterite society. in Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yaacov Oved and Menachem Topel. (eds.), The Communal Idea in the 21st. Century. Holland, USA: Brill, 241-266.
Lehr, J., and Zubricky, K. 2012. Image-building in Manitoba. in Jean Harvey and Robert Young (eds.), Image Building in Canadian Municipalities. Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 49-91.
Lehr J. and Aponiuk N. 2012 A question of endurance: Negotiating Ukrainian identity in Manitoba. in George Knysh, Jaroslav Rozumnyj, and Orest Cap (eds.), To the Source: Essays on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Canada 1949-2009. Winnipeg: Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Canada, 285-299.
Lehr, J., and Cipko S. 2011. Ukrainians in Brazil: Findings from a survey on identity. in Maryna Hrymych, Andriy Nahachewsky, Serge Cipko and Olga Nadia Kalko (eds.), Ukrainians in Brazil: A Historic-Ethnologic Study. Kyiv: Duliby, 104-118.
Cipko, S., and Lehr J. 2011. From the Prairies to Paraná: An Alberta development project in the Municipio de Prudentópolis. Brazil. in Maryna Hrymych, Andriy Nahachewsky, Serge Cipko and Olga Nadia Kalko (eds.), Ukrainians in Brazil: A Historic-Ethnologic Study Kyiv: Duliby, 188-195.
Lehr J. and Katz, Y. 2010. The Hutterites’ dilemma: A closed society confronts diversity, multiculturalism and globalization. in Om P. Juneja and Sudhi Rajiv (eds.), Understanding Diversity: Canada and India. New Delhi: Creative Books, 25-26.
Lehr, J. 2009. A Jewish farmer can’t be: Land settlement policies and ethnic settlement in Western Canada 1970-1919, in Annalee Greenberg and Daniel Stone (eds.), Jewish Life and Times: A Collection of Essays Vol. 9. Winnipeg: Jewish Heritage Centre, 18-28.
Articles:
Lehr, J. 2024. “The Jewish farm colony at Rosser,” Jewish Life and Times Vol. 10, pp. 158-161.
Lehr, J. 2023. “Outside the Colony: Jewish Farmers on the Prairies,” Canadian Jewish Studies, 36, 79-88.
Lehr, J. 2023. “Wishful thinking: Describing the prairie climate and changing the weather,” Prairie History, No. 12 (Fall) 19-25.
Wienersmith, K., Z. Wienersmith, R. Abramitzky, and J. Lehr, 2023. “To each according to their space-need: Communities in outer space,” Space Policy, 101592.
Lehr, J. 2023. “The evolving prairie landscape,” Prairie History, No.11, (Summer) 37-42.
Lehr, J. 2023. “Hutterites: A borderland society. Prairie Prespectives: Gegraphical Essays, 23: 1-6.
Lehr, J. 2023. “Rabbi Eliezer Gruber’s Jewish agricultural settlement schemes in Manitoba,” Prairie History No.10 (Spring) 20-32.
Lehr, J. 2022.Rupert Brooke on the Prairies, Prairie History No. 9 (Fall), 31-35.
Lehr J. and McGregor, B. "Colony branching among the Schmiedeleut Hutterites of Manitoba," Prairie Perspectives, 2021 22 1-13.
Lehr. J. 2020. It seems we talk a lot: The Jewish farm colony at Rosser and the Vanguard Project, Prairie History, No. 2 (Summer): 25-35.
Lehr, J. 2019. “Doomed to failure”: The Jewish farm colony of Hirsch, Saskatchewan, Manitoba History, No. 89 (Spring), 2-11.
Katz, Y. and Lehr J. 2018. The digital revolution and the Hutterite community: The rules and reality, Prairie Perspectives, 21: 9-15.
Lehr J. 2017. “Field trip: Ukrainian and Jewish settlement northeast of Melfort Saskatchewan,” Prairie Perspectives, 19: 65-69.
Cipko, S, and Lehr, J, 2017. Український культурний ландшафт у Південній Америці [The Ukrainian cultural landscape in South America] in Maryna Hrymych (ed.), Scientific studies on material culture Vol 1. The Research Institute of Ukrainian Education, Anthropology area: Scientific works and materials: Kyiw. [In Ukrainian]: 25-57.
McGregor B., and Lehr, J. (2016) “The agricultural settlement of the Canadian prairies 1870 1930. Using GIS to interpret a dynamic process,” Prairie Perspectives, 18
Lehr J., and McGregor, B. (2016) “The Politics of Toponymy: Naming Settlements and School Districts in Canada’s Prairie Provinces.” Prairie Perspectives, 18
Lehr, J., and Cipko, S. (2015) “The Ukrainian cultural landscape in Canada and Brazil: a century of change and divergence.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 47 (4-5): 73-206
Lehr, J., and McGregor B. (2015) “Did Your Mother Go to Bimbo School? Naming Schools, Power and Politics in Canada’s Prairie West,” Canadian Ethnic Studies 47 (4-5): 111-128.
Albanski, L. and Lehr, J. 2012 Identity, integration and assimilation recorded in Manitoba’s Polish and Ukrainian cemeteries. Great Plains Research 22 (1): 3-14.
Lehr, J. 2011. Owa: A Dariusleut Hutterite Colony in Japan. Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays 13: 30-38.
Lehr J., and Aponiuk N. 2011. Memory, myth and monuments: The commemoration of contested past in Western Ukraine. Memory Connection 1 (1): 212-228 (on-line journal).
Aponiuk, N., and Lehr Dz. [Lehr, J]. 2011. Pytannia vytryvalosti: vstanovlennia ukrains’koi identychnosti v Manitobi. [A question of endurance: negotiating Ukrainian identity in Manitoba]. Ukrains’kyy vymir, zbirnyk materialiv z Ukrainy ta diaspory [The Ukrainian dimension, A collection of materials from Ukraine and the diaspora]. Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Lehr, J. 2009. Image building in the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn, Manitoba: The need for public policy. Prairie Perspectives 12: 195-212.
Lehr J., and McGregor, B. 2009. The geography of bilingual schools in Manitoba. Manitoba History ,61 (Fall): 33-36.
Lehr J., and McGregor, B. 2008. Using schools to map the frontier of settlement on the Canadian prairies. Great Plains Research 18 (Spring): 53-66.
Church M., and Lehr, J. 2007. The portrayal of the prairies in Canadian children’s literature. Prairie Forum 32 (1): 111-122.
Lehr, J., Everitt, J., and Evans, S. 2008. The making of the prairie landscape. Prairie Forum 33 (1): 1-38. Reprinted in Gregory P. Marchildon, (ed.), Immigration and Settlement, 1870-1939. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2009: 13-56.
Lehr, J., Bartlet J., and Tabvahtah, J. 2006 The distant beat of my father’s drums: Contemporary Aboriginal music and NCI-FM broadcasting, Manitoba, Canada. GeoJournal 65: 79-90.
Lehr, J. and Aponiuk, N. 2006. Zberezhennya ukrainc’koyii identynoti v manitobi (kanada) ictorychni perspektyvy. Ukrainskyi vimir 5: 71-73.