Paul Weinzweig
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Paul Weinzweig

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Paul Weinzweig is a social scientist, philosopher, teacher, author, and public speaker. He grew up in Toronto, Canada where he received his formal education. He is the older son of John Weinzweig, a prolific composer and university teacher of contemporary musical composition celebrated as "the dean of Canadian composers" and Helen Weinzweig, a late-blooming, award-winning Canadian novelist and short story writer. Paul earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto and went on to do volunteer research work in West Africa at a community mental health project. He has taught in the social sciences at several Canadian universities and helped to pioneer and present televised distance education. Paul served as Associate Director of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations where he managed negotiations between university teachers and the new provincial distance education authority (TV Ontario) that laid the ground rules for the participation of university teachers in the new electronic educational media. Paul has conducted research in many areas including private school education, the role of international nongovernmental organizations in peace and disarmament, the plight of Canada's indigenous peoples migrating from rural to urban areas, and cultural programming for Toronto's Harborfront development. In 1987, during the advent of Perestroika, Paul was invited to the Soviet Union where his book on creativity and self-realization was published in Russian. The book became a best-seller and he was encouraged to make a television series for Soviet Central Television based on the book's themes. The 14-part TV series ("To the Promised Land..."), blending Russian performing arts with talks on social and psychological change, became part of a fund-raising effort by Paul and his wife Paulina to support the renowned but struggling Natalya Sats Musical Theater. Clips from the TV series were later incorporated into his multimedia publication "The Dreamer Whose Dream Came True" (2014). www.youtube.com/user/PaulWeinzweigVideos/videos In the late 1990s, with his wife and partner Paulina Zelitsky, Paul helped organize and manage a company that conducted deep-ocean archaeological exploration. Paul is co-author of Paulina's memoir "The Sea is Only Knee Deep" (2013) about her childhood in the Soviet Union, her engineering work at a secret Soviet nuclear navy submarine base in Cuba, and her daring escape and defection in 1971 from the USSR to Canada. Paul and Paulina live in the Niagara region of Southern Ontario. Contact Paul Weinzweig at: pweinzweig@gmail.com Paul's most recent video course "BLOWBACK: Unanticipated Consequences of Information Technology" is available free at UDEMY www.udemy.com/course/blowback/ or www.youtube.com/user/PaulWeinzweig?feature=watch
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