David Kaufman

This episode was produced and edited by Theodora Draper in Toronto.

Our music is provided by J.K. Bradley and our executive producers are Joshua Tapper, that's me, and David Kaufman.

Tete-a-Tete is a podcast of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.

You can learn more about the ACJS and our various initiatives, including past episodes of this podcast, at our website, canadianjewishstudies.ca.

In my podcast, I like to speak to business leaders, business owners, visionaries, and entrepreneurs to learn more about how they think about doing business, what are their success secrets, and can we replicate those success secrets in our own businesses.

Now, what if you spent 30 years building a successful business, but deep inside there's another dream that you have yet to pursue? Do you play it safe, or do you begin again at the age of 50? Meet my good friend, David Kaufman.

For almost three decades, he built Kaufman Stone.

Then at 50, he pursued art, and since 2023, he has created over 1,000 paintings.

Yeah.

Um, let's, let's talk a bit, a bit more about your, your artwork.

For people who might not be knowledgeable about David Kaufman, tell us a bit more about the, the artwork that you've done so far, because we've talked about that you've done paintings-

Sculptures

Our music is provided by JK Bradley.

Our executive producers are Joshua Tapper and David Kaufman.

Tête-à-Tête is a podcast of the Association for Canadian Jewish Studies.

You can find out more about the ACJS and link to our journal and past podcast episodes by checking out our website, canadianjewishstudies.ca. We're grateful to our supporters, the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council's Aid to Scholarly Journals program, and the J. Richard Schiff Chair for the Study of Canadian Jewry.