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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.
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📣 The Latin American Jewish Studies Association (#LAJSA) has officially approved the proposal to hold its XXII Congress in #Quito, #Ecuador, in-person only, in the summer of 2027 (Northern Hemisphere). 🇪🇨✨

🔗 Read the full announcement:

👉 lajsa.org/lajsa-congre...
LAJSA Announces XXII Congress in Quito, 2027
LAJSA will hold its 2027 Congress as an in-person event in Quito, Ecuador. Further details will be announced in the coming months.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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📽️ Conmemoración del Día Internacional del Holocausto

🎞️ TRACES – voces de la 2ª generación
🎤 Q&A con Stacey Goldring
🗓 Mar 27, 2026 | 🕔 5 PM proyección | 🕕 6 PM panel
📍 CDIJUM, Córdoba 238, Roma Norte, CDMX
✨ Entrada gratuita – RSVP antes del 25/01: cdijum@cdijum.mx
January 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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📢 CFP: Hispanófila Special Issue — “Jewish Writing in Modern & Contemporary Spain”
Editors: Stacy Beckwith & Adam Cohn
🗓 Proposals due Mar 6, 2026
Spain & Latin America welcome!

📄 Details:
January 25, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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🌎✨ Become a LAJSA Member ✨🌎

Join a global community of scholars, students, and cultural practitioners working in Latin American Jewish Studies.

👉 Join today

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Membership & Conference Fees - Latin American Jewish Studies Association
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January 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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📣 Próxima sesión del Seminario Internacional
Antisemitism in Latin America in Comparative Perspective

📅 Miércoles 21 de enero de 2026
🕚 11:00 a.m. (ET)
🌎 Traducción simultánea español–inglés

🔗 Registro previo obligatorio:
zoom.us/meeting/regi...
January 21, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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📘✨ Curso online e gratuito ✨📘

📅 Datas: 02, 04, 09 e 11 de fevereiro de 2026
🕕 Horário: das 18h00 às 19h30
💻 Modalidade: online e gratuito

📝 Inscrições: 19 e 20/01/2026
⚠️ Vagas limitadas | Sorteio de vagas: 21/01/2026
🔗 Mais informações: sce.fflch.usp.br
January 19, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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📚✨ Imaginarios lingüísticos de la experiencia judía entre Europa y América Latina (2025), volumen editado por Cynthia Gabbay, Valentina Litvan y Brigitte Natanson, ya está disponible: reseñas y solicitudes para bibliotecas en simania.lajsa@gmail.com ✨

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January 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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✨ New Digital Archive! ✨

The UW Sephardic Studies Program now offers 62 oral history interviews with descendants of Sephardic Jews on Spanish & Portuguese citizenship.

🎧 Full archive: digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

#SephardicStudies #OralHistory #JewishHistory #Genealogy
January 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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✨ ¡Buenas noticias!
Las páginas de la Comisión de Desaparecidos Judíos en Argentina, en castellano y hebreo, volvieron a estar disponibles en el sitio de AMILAT.

🙏 Esto fue posible gracias a una donación de AMIA.

🔗 amilat.online/comision-isr...
January 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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📚✨ Nueva publicación

Compartimos un conmovedor relato de Ber Kotlerman,
publicado en Nueva Sion, sobre la memoria, el viaje y las “antípodas”, a partir de su visita a Moisés Ville, entrelazando historias de migración, desarraigo y hogar.

#Memoria #MoisésVille #CulturaJudía
January 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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✨ Invitación ✨

3a sesión del Foro de Investigadores Judíos Latinoamericanos 🗓️
📅 Miércoles 21 de enero — 16:30 (Israel)

🎙️ Leticia Mendoza García presentará:
➡️ “Congregaciones mesiánicas judaizantes y sionistas en México”

👉 Únete por Zoom:
huji.zoom.us/j/8853051743...
January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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🕯️ Jewish History — A Hidden Voice from the Inquisition

A powerful new article in the New Mexico Jewish Journal uncovers the dramatic story of Luis Gómez Barreto, a Portuguese converso in 17th-century Cartagena, Colombia.

www.nmjewishjournal.com/a-hidden-jew...
A Hidden Jewish Voice from the Spanish Inquisition: Torture in Cartagena
By Ron Duncan Hart October, 2025 New Mexico Jewish Journal www.nmjewishjournal.com Warning: This article is for a mature audience and contains the vivid original Inquisition description of the tort...
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January 3, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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📚✨ Aprovechá las vacaciones para aprender ídish

🗓️ 2 al 13 de febrero
⏰ Clases de 2 horas, de lunes a viernes

📍 Nivel inicial: híbrido (virtual + presencial)
💻 Niveles intermedio y avanzado: virtuales

👉 Inscripción: forms.gle/zbXLNAYBcpEh...
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Miembros de LAJSA presentes en el Congreso de la @jewishstudies.bsky.social 🤝📚
Un espacio de encuentro y diálogo que fortalece los estudios judíos latinoamericanos y crea nuevos puentes académicos.
¡Seguimos construyendo redes!
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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📖✨ New Ladino Story Alert! ✨📖

“Saved by his Enemy” by Elia Karmona — translated from Ladino by Marina Mayorski — just came out in issue #41 of Jewish Fiction.

A story about love, sacrifice, and redemption among Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman world.

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Saved by his Enemy
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December 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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📢 Nuevo artículo sobre la narrativa de Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

Compartimos la publicación del artículo “Gender, Religion, and Indefinability in La burladora de Toledo”, escrito por Naomi Lindstrom (University of Texas at Austin).

🔗 Leelo aquí:
doi.org/10.18192/rce...
December 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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📢 Nos complace anunciar que ya está disponible en línea el primer volumen de la serie Research in Latin American Jewish Studies, publicado por De Gruyter-Brill en colaboración con LAJSA.

🔗 Pueden comenzar a explorar el volumen aquí:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
December 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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📚 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 lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu so we can include it.
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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📣 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
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📢 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
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📚✨ 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
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📚✨ 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

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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
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📢 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
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📚 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 📩 lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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📚 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. 🌎✨

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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