Harold Troper is a professor in the Department of Theory and Policy Studies at the University of Toronto where he teaches on the history of immigration and inter-group relations. He has been honored with a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the American Jewish Book Award and the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book published in Canadian history. His books include Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience (1975); None Is Too Many (1982); Old Wounds (1985); Friend or Foe? (1997); Ethnicity, Politics and Public Policy in Canada (1999) and The Ransomed of God (1999).