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Latin American Jewish Studies Association
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Founded in 1982, LAJSA unites scholars in Latin American Jewish Studies. Goals include promoting scholarship, sharing research opportunities, organizing events, publishing findings, and maintaining a member network.
📚 LAJSA is updating its syllabus registry! ✨

LAJSA maintains on its website a collection of syllabi for courses on Latin American Jewish topics.

🔗 Explore it here:
lajsa.org/resources/sy...

📩 Please send your syllabus to [email protected] so we can include it.
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📣 Salud i beraha: The 9th Annual NY Ladino Day is coming up!

On January 11, 2026, the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan will host this in-person celebration of Ladino language and culture.

The event is curated by J. Mushabac and B. Kirschen.

More info: beta-programs.cjh.org/event/ladino...
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
📢 Invitación abierta | 2ª sesión del Foro de Investigadores Judíos Latinoamericanos

🗓 11/12/25
🕕 18:00 (Israel)
💻 Zoom

🔗 Enlace de acceso al Zoom:
huji.zoom.us/j/8361685984...
ID de la reunión: 836 1685 9846
Código de acceso: 443781
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📚✨ SIMANIÁ: Lecturas de Salón
En su 43º encuentro del 20 de noviembre de 2025, la plataforma de LAJSA presentó el volumen Sionismo y Antisionismo. Un debate necesario, editado por Manuel Férez y Sigal Meirovich.

🗣️ La coordinación estuvo a cargo de Cynthia Gabbay (University of Pennsylvania).
Presentación del volumen Sionismo y Antisionismo. Un debate necesario de M. Férez y S. Meirovich
YouTube video by LAJSA - Latin American Jewish Studies Association
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November 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📚✨ Nueva entrevista a Isaac Goldemberg

El reconocido autor peruano reflexiona sobre identidad, memoria, migración y creación literaria en una conversación imperdible.

👉 Lee la entrevista completa

elhacedorcriticaliteraturaregional.blogspot.com/2025/11/entr...
ENTREVISTA A ISAAC GOLDEMBERG
ISAAC GOLDEMBERG: «ESCRIBIR NUNCA ES PARA MÍ UN EJERCICIO DE REPETICIÓN, SINO DE DESCUBRIMIENTO. QUIZÁS POR ESO SIGO ESCRIBIENDO: PORQUE L...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
📢 Job Opportunity at the University of Florida!

Applications are open for the Bruce Greenberg Chair in Atlantic, Caribbean, and Latin American Jewish Studies.

👉 More information and full details here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
University of Florida - Details - Bruce Greenberg Chair in Atlantic, Caribbean and Latin American Jewish Studies
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November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
📚 New Look Alert!
Our Dissertations & Theses section has a fresh new design 🎉 — with more entries and an easier way to explore them!

Take a look 👉 lajsa.org/resources/di...

If you have new theses to include, please email Naomi Lindstrom at 📩 [email protected]
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📚 Call for Book Proposals!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the new series Research in Latin American Jewish Studies (RLAJS), an interdisciplinary platform redefining and expanding the boundaries of Jewish and Latin American Jewish Studies. 🌎✨

lajsa.org/cfc-research...
Call for Contributions: Research in Latin American Jewish Studies (RLAJS)
Research in Latin American Jewish Studies (RLAJS) invites innovative, and interdisciplinary proposals exploring Jewish life and thought.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🎓 New Seminar Series | Los Avatares del Prejuicio Hoy / The Manifestations of Prejudice Today

🗓️ Starting November 12, 2025
🕓 4 PM GMT | 11 AM ET | 6 PM IL

🌎 Simultaneous Spanish and English translation.
👉 To attend upcoming lectures, click here: isgap.org/seminar-seri...
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
📢 Convocatoria abierta para Milta 7

Ya está abierta la recepción de artículos para el número 7 de la Milta, Revista Iberoamericana de Pensamiento, Cultura y Educación Judía.

🗓 Fecha límite : 5 de diciembre de 2025.

Completa el formulario: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📚 New Yiddish Collection at UF!

The Price Library of Judaica received Esther Rollansky’s personal library from Buenos Aires, enriching resources on Latin American Jewish culture. A tribute to her lifelong devotion to Yiddish heritage.

#YiddishCulture #JewishStudies #UF
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📢 ¡Ya está disponible la nueva edición de la Revista Digital del NIEJ - Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos Judaicos (NIEJ) de la UFRJ!

📰 Revista Digital do NIEJ – N° 10
📖 Lee la edición completa aquí:
🔗 share.google/mHuxSQHPcPOd...

En el enlace encontrarás más información!
November 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📣 Exposição “Mooca Judaica: histórias e memórias de uma comunidade”

🗓 05/11 a 14/12/2025
📍 Unibes Cultural — São Paulo, SP
⏰ Quarta a domingo, das 12h às 19h
🎟 Entrada gratuita

Uma oportunidade para conhecer as tradições da comunidade judaica na história do bairro.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
📢 Upcoming Event!

🇦🇷 “Una Cosa Viva”: The Futures of Holocaust Memory and Meaning in Argentina
🗓️ Thursday, November 6, 2025 – 4:00 PM (EST)

🎥 Register to watch online: tinyurl.com/52assas3

🏛️ Register to attend in person: tinyurl.com/2np6uwnh
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: “Una Cosa Viva”: The Futures of Holocaust Memory and Meaning in Argentina. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webina...
Argentina–home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America–is a nation with multiple histories of violence and loss, including the 1976-1983 dictatorship and the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jew...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
📚✨ Presentación de “Sentir dos patrias. La migración judía entre Argentina e Israel” 🇦🇷🇮🇱, una obra del Dr. Adrián Krupnik (U. Tel Aviv).

📅 Jueves 30 de octubre – 19:30 hs
📍 Julián Álvarez 239
🎟️ Actividad presencial con inscripción previa

📩 Para más información o inscribirte: [email protected]
October 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🎨 YENTE: Retrato de un Legado

📅 Miércoles 29 de octubre – 18.30 hs
📍 Museo Judío de Buenos Aires, Libertad 769
🆓 Actividad gratuita con inscripción previa

👉 Inscribite acá docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Inauguración 'Yente: retrato de un legado'
La exposición redescubre a Yente (Eugenia Crenovich, 1905–1990), pionera del arte abstracto en Argentina, a partir de las obras de nuestra colección y piezas del Archivo Yente-Del Prete, mostrando ret...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
📚✨ ¡Están todos invitados!

El Foro de Investigadores del Judaísmo Latinoamericano (FORUM AMLAT) presenta: The Holocaust and Latin America: Migration, Resettlement and Memory (Palgrave, 2025)

🗓️ 6/11/2025
🕕 6PM (hora Israel)
💻 Zoom

🔗 Enlace:
huji.zoom.us/j/8241013583...
October 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🕍 Los judíos en la Colonia Roma
📅 Domingo 26 de octubre de 2025 | 🕙 10:00 AM

💰 Donativo mínimo: $500 pesos
📩 Registro previo indispensable: [email protected]

🌐 Más información: www.sinagogajustosierra.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
1/3 📚 Exciting News!
Steve Sadow’s latest anthology, I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America (2024), has been awarded the New Mexico Book Prize in the Multicultural Category! 🎉 This prestigious honor is sponsored by the New Mexico Writers Association.
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🕍 Memory Is a Verb
Join the Brandeis Initiative on the Jews of the Americas for an evening with Jewish Argentinian architect Julián Bonder
📅 Monday, October 27
🕕 6:00 PM
📍 Lehrhaus, Somerville, MA

👉 Register now and be part of the conversation.
🔗 events.humanitix.com/memory-is-a-...
Memory is a Verb: An Architect's Dedication to Justice
Join Julián Bonder to explore how historical memory can be inscribed into public spaces and our built environment and the many questions this raises.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
📚✨ LAJSA’s platform Simania: Salon Readings held its 42nd meeting on October 9, 2025, featuring the presentation of “Living and Dying in São Paulo. Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil” by Jeffrey Lesser (2025).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGcp...
Presentation of 'Living and Dying in São Paulo', by Jeffrey Lesser
YouTube video by LAJSA - Latin American Jewish Studies Association
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October 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
📚 SIMANIA: Salon Readings

Join us on October 9, 2025 for the presentation of Jeffrey Lesser’s new book:
Living and Dying in São Paulo. Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil (2025).

👉 Pre-sign here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🎨✨ New Release

"Jewish Latin American Artists: Perspectives from the Global South" (Jewish Latin America, Vol. 19) explores the creativity of Jewish visual artists who shaped 20th- and 21st-century Latin American art.

👉 Learn more: brill.com/display/titl...
October 1, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🌍 Virtual Roundtable: “October 7th in the University Classroom”
Join LAJSA on Oct 5, 2025 to explore how the events of Oct 7, 2023 shape teaching Jewish & Latin American identities in academia.

📌 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
ℹ️ Info: lajsa.org/virtual-roun...
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🎥✨ Ya está disponible el video del 41º encuentro de SIMANIÁ: lecturas de salón.

Se presentó el vol. 3.1 del Latin American Jewish Studies Journal, con S. Silverstein, I. Cherjovsky, M. di Miro y A. Semo, bajo la coordinación de Cynthia Gabbay.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbq5...
Presentación del volumen 3.1 de Latin American Jewish Studies , ed. D. Lockhart & S. Silverstein
YouTube video by LAJSA - Latin American Jewish Studies Association
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September 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM