Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Included in this collection are the research materials, newspaper articles, interviews and photographs of the Windsor Jewish Community from 1790 to 2000. Rabbi Plaut has held many civic and religious posts and was the youngest person to receive Windsor Jewry's highest communal honor in 1985, becoming the Jewish National Fund Negev Dinner honoree. Active in a variety of communal activities, Rabbi Plaut headed the Jewish National Fund, United Jewish Appeal of Windsor, State of Israel Bonds, Credit Counseling Service of Metropolitan Windsor, Counsel of Agency Executives and Rabbis in San Jose, and was the Chaplain for both the San Jose Fire and Police Departments. Rabbi Plaut and his wife, Carol, have two children, a son, Daniel who lives in Jacksonville, Florida; and a daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and David who have two sons, Steven and Jeffrey who live in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Dr. Plaut is the son of Rabbi Dr. W. Gunther Plaut, an internationally renowned Jewish scholar who lived in Toronto, Ontario until his death on 8 February 2012 at the age of 99. Selected works Authored: The Jews of Windsor, 1790–1990: A Historical Chronicle (2007), Edited: Through the sound of many voices : writings contributed on the occasion of the 70th birthday of W. Gunther Plaut (1982), One Voice: The Selected Sermons of W. Gunther Plaut (2007), Journal of the Canadian Jewish Historical Society Journal of the Canadian Jewish Historical Society The Plaut Family: Tracing the Legacy (2007), Eight Decades (2008), Eileen McCullough (1982), One Voice (2007), Introduction/Preface: On Sunday Observance 1906, Compiled by David Rome with Preface Jonathan V. Plaut, (Montreal: National Archives, Canadian Jewish Congress, 1979) On the Early Harts, Compiled by David Rome with Preface Jonathan V. Plaut (Montreal: National Archives, Canadian Jewish Congress, 1980) On the Early Harts—Their Contemporaries, Compiled by David Rome with Preface Jonathan V. Plaut, (Montreal: National Archives, Canadian Jewish Congress, 1981–1982) Introduction, Plaut, W. Gunther, Eight Decades: The Selected Writings of W. Gunther Plaut, (Dundurn Press, 2008) References 1942 births 2012 deaths American biblical scholars Hebrew Union College alumni Santa Clara University faculty Old Testament scholars American Reform rabbis People from Chicago Macalester College alumni University of Detroit Mercy faculty 20th-century American rabbis 21st-century American rabbis Religious leaders from Illinois