Tribute to Freema Elbaz-Luwisch

Now a Professor Emerita, Freema Elbaz-Luwisch was a faculty member in the Department of Learning and Instructional Sciences at the University of Haifa in Israel. Her Jewish parents reached Canada by diverse routes. Her mother immigrated from the Ukraine (then Soviet Union) as a teenager; and her dad escaped Austria to England in 1939, aided by Quaker friends, was later deported by Britain to an internment camp in rural Quebec, and eventually granted immigrant status in Canada in 1943. According to Freema, “her parents raised her to live a careful life, to value official knowledge and to make rational decisions.” She left Canada in 1966 to go to Israel, “a place that only dreamed of peace,” where she worked as a teacher of disadvantaged children, then stayed to do a Master's in Education degree at Hebrew University. She returned to Canada in 1973 for doctoral study and went back to Israel with her family in 1983.