Latin American Jewish Studies Association

📢 EXTENDED DEADLINE — XXII LAJSA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2027 📅 New deadline: October 15, 2026 📍 Quito, Ecuador 📆 July 7–9, 2027 For full participation guidelines and submission instructions, visit: lajsa.org/cfp-lajsa-2027/

📚✨ New stories in Jewish Fiction! 🔗 Read “Chiko Israel”: jewishfiction.com/story/chiko-... 🔗 Read “The House”: jewishfiction.com/story/the-ho...

🌎✨ What does it mean to be Jewish, Arab, and Mexican? 📅 October 18 💻 Free online event 🔗 Register and learn more: bit.ly/heritageandh...

🇫🇷🇦🇷 ¡René Goscinny llega a Buenos Aires! 📚✨ 📅 22 de octubre de 2026 ✨ ¡No se lo pierdan!

📢 Call for Papers | What Makes a Diaspora? Middle Eastern Minorities, the Americas, and Jewish Studies in Conversation 📅 Deadline: 15/10/2026 📝 Abstract: up to 400 words + 1–2 page academic CV 📍 University of Cologne | 24–25 May 2027 💬 English 🔗 Full call: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

📣 Call for Papers: LAJSA 2027 in Quito! Join the XXII LAJSA International Research Conference, July 7–9, 2027, at UTE University 🇪🇨 Papers, panels, roundtables, book presentations & creative works welcome. 📅 Deadline: Oct. 1, 2026 🔗 lajsa.org/cfp-lajsa-20...

📢 Call for Papers – Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Annual Conference 2026 📅 Conference Date: October 25, 2026 📩 Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2026 🌐 Online (Zoom) 📝 Presentations must be in English. For submissions and inquiries: sward@aya.yale.edu (Subject: SCJS2026)

📢 LAJSA is pleased to welcome Mirna Vohnsen as the Association’s new Awards Coordinator! In this role, Mirna will oversee the Best Book and Best Dissertation awards committees while continuing her work as LAJS Journal Book Review Editor. 📚🏆 lajsa.org/new-lajsa-aw...

📢 Call for Papers 📝 Propuestas para “Desde al-Ándalus/Sefarad hasta Constantinopla: hacia un hispanismo policéntrico” 📍 Augsburgo, Alemania 📅 7–11 marzo 2027 ⏳ Deadline: 18 agosto 2026 ℹ️ iberorom.org/wp-content/u...

📚✨ Congratulations to LAJSA member Nora Glickman on the publication of her new book, "From the Pampas to New York, with Detours: Scenes from the Life of a Jewish Gaucha"! ✨📚 Congratulations, Nora, on this remarkable contribution to Jewish and Latin American letters! 👏🎉

📢 CFA! 🌍 Scholars working on migration, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies, history, geography, and related fields are invited to apply. 📅 Workshop: 10/2026 & 07/2027 ⏳ Deadline: July 17, 2026 📌 Latin Americanists especially encouraged to apply. www.ushmm.org/research/abo...

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Debora Kantor! LAJSA is pleased to announce that Dr. Debora Kantor (Escuela de Arte y Patrimonio, Universidad Nacional de San Martín) is the recipient of the 2026 Edna Aizenberg Research Award. 🔗 More information: lajsa.org/announcing-t...

📚🎙️ ¡No te pierdas una nueva sesión de SIMANIÁ: Lecturas de salón! 📅 15 de junio de 2026 | ⏰ CDMX 11:00 • Nueva York 13:00 • Buenos Aires 14:00 • París 19:00 • Jerusalén 20:00 🗣️ Evento en castellano. 🔗 Inscripción: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📢 ✨ ¡Ya está abierta la convocatoria para el envío de artículos a la revista MILTA #9! ✨📚 🗓️ Fecha límite para el envío de artículos: 30 de junio de 2026 📄 Consulta aquí las bases completas de la convocatoria: revistamilta.org/wp-content/u...

🎉 LAJSA has announced the results of its 2026 elections! Meet the newly elected Co-Presidents, Board Members at Large, and Ex Officio members who will officially take office on July 1, 2026. 📖 Read the announcement here: lajsa.org/lajsa-2026-e... #LAJSA #LatinAmericanJewishStudies #JewishStudie

📚🎥 The recording is now available on LAJSA’s Simania: Salon Readings platform! Presentation of the book Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews (2026) by Gustavo Guzmán (ISGAP, New York). 🗣️ Coordination: Cynthia Gabbay (CONICET-LICH-UNSAM) 🔗 Watch it now on Simania www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYd...

🕍✨ A exposição itinerante Mooca Judaica: histórias e memórias de uma comunidade já está no Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo! 🇧🇷 📍 Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo 🗓️ Até 21/06/2026 museudaimigracao.org.br/exposicoes/i...

📢 Call for Papers | What Makes a Diaspora? Middle Eastern Minorities, the Americas, and Jewish Studies in Conversation 🌍📚 📝 Deadline: October 1, 2026 📍 Cologne, Germany 🎓 Early-career scholars strongly encouraged to apply. More info & submissions: m.lehmann@uni-koeln.de / moreno.av@ufl.edu

🎉 LAJSA felicita a Cynthia Gabbay por el reconocimiento de su artículo “Exponential Minor Literatures” como “Article of the Year” (2024) por la sección de yiddish de The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 👏📚 ¡Un merecido reconocimiento! 📖 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Ya está disponible la octava edición de la revista Milta. Los invitamos a leer este nuevo número y descubrir sus artículos, reflexiones y aportes sobre temas de interés para el campo de los estudios judíos latinoamericanos. 📖 Léela aquí: revistamilta.org/revista-8/

🎬 El cine documental vuelve al Museo Judío de Buenos Aires. 📍 Museo Judío y Templo Libertad – Libertad 769 🗓️ Martes 19 de mayo | 18 hs 🎟️ Actividad gratuita con inscripción previa 👉 Inscribite acá: forms.gle/JAW7JzYxAWp3...

📚 SIMANIÁ: Lecturas de salón invita a la presentación del libro Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews, de Gustavo Guzmán (Routledge, 2026). 🗓 19 de mayo de 2026 ⏰ 10:30 a.m. Santiago & Gainesville | 16:30 Berlín | 17:30 Jerusalén 🔗 Inscripción: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📚 ¿Defendiste recientemente una tesis doctoral o de maestría sobre temática judía latinoamericana? LAJSA quiere incluirla en su registro de tesis! 👇 Envía toda la información a: lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu Ayúdanos a difundir la investigación sobre judaísmo latinoamericano!

⚽🕯️ Memoria, historia y fútbol: una exposición que invita a reflexionar 📍 Galería Nacional (Museo de los Niños, San José) 📅 Hasta el 24 de mayo de 2026 www.enlacejudio.com/2026/04/17/e...

📚✨ Foro de Investigadores Judíos Latinoamericanos Te invitamos a la presentación del libro de Leonardo Senkman: “Semblanzas de vida y muerte; utopistas latinoamericanos en Israel” 🗓 Jueves 28 de mayo 🕔 17:00 hs (Israel) 💻 Zoom 🔗 Únete aquí: huji.zoom.us/j/8349624129...

📚✨ Nuevo programa intensivo – Yiddish Barcelona 2026 ✨📚 🗓 19–24 de julio de 2026 📍 Casa Adret, Barcelona 💸 Precio: 250€ 📩 Inscripción: yiddish.barcelona@gmail.com 🔗 Más info: www.yiddishbarcelona.org

📚✨ New Resource for Latin American Jewish Studies! The archive of syllabi and course descriptions on Latin American Jewish topics has just been updated! 🔗 Explore it here: lajsa.org/resources/sy... 📩 Have a syllabus to share? Write to: lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu

📚✨ New Release | Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews ✨ A compelling new study by Gustavo Guzmán explores the complex relationships between Chile, its leaders, and the Jewish world. 🗓 Published: April 16, 2026 📖 236 pages | 11 illustrations 💸 Hardback €152 | eBook €43.99

📚✨ Yiddish Summer Program 2026 – Tel Aviv University ✨📚 🗓 July 5–30, 2026 📍 Tel Aviv University ⏰ Sunday–Thursday, 9:30–13:00 💸 Tuition: $1450 | Registration: $60 🎓 Scholarships available 👉 More info: en-humanities.tau.ac.il/naomiyiddish

📢 Call for Papers – Contemporary Antisemitism ✍️ Submissions welcome: • Academic articles & critical reviews • Short stories, poetry, translations, chronicles • Visual and artistic works 📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026 📖 Publication: November 2026 🔗 Submit here: periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/ma...

📚✨ ¡Nueva iniciativa para combatir el antisemitismo en las escuelas! La Anti-Defamation League (ADL), junto con la Comunidad Judía de Chile y el Museo Judío de Chile, lanzó COAJ: Combatiendo el Odio y el Antisemitismo Juntos 🇨🇱 👉 Haz click aquí para más info: www.adl.org/es/resources...

📚✨ New Publication by Our Member! We’re proud to share that our member Cynthia Gabbay has recently published a new entry with the Jewish Women’s Archive on the life of Micaela Feldman/Mika Etchebehere 🖋️ 👉 Discover more: jwa.org/encyclopedia...

📚🌎 LAJSA Call for Syllabi! Have you taught courses on Latin American Jewish topics (or related themes)? Share your syllabus and help expand LAJSA’s academic resources 📖 🎓 Contribute here: lajsa.org/resources/sy... 📩 Send to: lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu ✨ Boost visibility & support collaboration

🌎✨ ROOTS AND RESONANCE: JEWISH LIFE AND ART IN MEXICO (ONLINE COURSE) 🎨📚 🗓 Dates: Tuesdays, May 26 – June 2 ⏰ Time: 1:30–3:00 PM (ET) 💻 Online 👩‍🏫 Instructor: Sara Aroeste 💸 Cost: • Members: 15% discount • Non-members: $48 👉 Register here: continuededucation.case.edu/search/publi...

📢 CFP: In a Latin Key 🌍 New perspectives on Israeli migration through Latin American & Iberian lenses 📍 University of Florida 📅 16–17 Dec 2026 📝 Submit abstract (max 200 words) + CV ⏰ Deadline: 18 May 2026 📩 Send to: raanan.rein@ufl.edu | Morenoav@ufl.edu #CFP

📣 Gale Family Foundation Spring 2026 Lecture 🎓 “In the Shadow of the Franco Dictatorship: Renovating Jewish Life in Post–World War II Madrid” 👤 by Raanan Rein 🗓 March 26, 2026 ⏰ 7:00–8:30 PM 📍 Harry Ransom Center – Prothro Theater 🔗 Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/family-fou...

📣📚 CFP: Archives and Archival Practices in Latin American Jewish History 🗣️ English, Spanish, Portuguese ✍️ 5,000–6,000 words 📅 Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026 📩 Submit your abstract via the form 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Edited by: Cynthia Gabbay & Joanna Zofia Spyra

📣 Call for Papers 🎓 14th Annual ucLADINO Judeo-Spanish Conference 🗓 May 19, 2026 | 📍 Online (UCLA) 🎤 Keynote: Edwin Seroussi Theme: The Ladino Diaspora and Community Resilience: Memory and Adaptation 📝 Deadline: April 7, 2026 📩 Apply via Google Form or email: ucladinoconf@gmail.com

📢 New post is live! Discover the powerful story of Alicia Partnoy—Argentine writer, dictatorship survivor, and human rights advocate. From the Dirty War to a life of memory and justice, her voice still resonates. 🖊️ By Daniela Goldfine 🔗 jwa.org/encyclopedia...

📣 HBI Seminar Series 🎓 “The ‘New’ Jewish Woman” 🗓 March 23 | 12–1 pm EDT | Hybrid Adriana M. Brodsky explores how Zionist youth movements reshaped Sephardi women’s roles in Argentina (1940s–70s). 🔗 In person: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🔗 Online: brandeis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📚✨ ¿Te perdiste algún encuentro de LAJSA Simaniá? ¡No pasa nada! Encuentra flyers y grabaciones de casi 5 años de sesiones, y propone tu próximo libro 📖 🔗 lajsa.org/simania/ #LAJSA #Simaniá #JewishStudies #LatinAmericanJewishStudies

📚✨ "The Holocaust and Latin America. Migration, Resettlement and Memory" 👥 Emmanuel Kahan, Daniela Gleizer y Yael Siman 🎤 Modera: Jonathan Karszenbaum 📅 30 de marzo 🕔 17:00 hs 📍 Museo del Holocausto de Buenos Aires 🔗 Inscribite acá: forms.gle/33DwiHvemKFG...

📢 Convocatoria abierta – Revista Milta El próximo número de Milta (N.º 8) ya está en preparación. La revista invita a enviar artículos en español o portugués hasta el 10 de abril. 📄 Más info aquí: revistamilta.org/wp-content/u... 🌐 Más info sobre la revista: revistamilta.org

📢 Call for Papers | Online Symposium 📚 Os judeus e as palavras: textos contemporâneos Part of CONIFID & CONIFE 2026 (Sept 16–28, online). Proposals exploring Jewish tradition, literature, memory, identity & diaspora are welcome. 📝 Submit: doity.com.br/ii-conife-e-...

📣 Call for Proposals: 2026 Edna Aizenberg Research Award LAJSA invites applications for the 2026 Edna Aizenberg Research Award, supporting innovative scholarship in Latin American Jewish Studies. 💰 Award: USD $2,000 (one annual prize) 📅 Deadline: May 1, 2026 📢 Notification: By June 15, 2026

📅✨ Día Nacional de la Inmigración Judía en Brasil 📍 Fechas: 19–22 de marzo de 2026 🔗 Más información e inscripciones: www.poloturismojudaico.com.br #HistoriaJudía #InmigraciónJudía #Brasil #PatrimonioJudío

📚✨ Recording now available! The 44th session of LAJSA Simaniá: Lecturas de salón featured the presentation of Imaginarios lingüísticos de la experiencia judía entre Europa y América Latina (2025). www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A6b...

🌎📚 CFP – LAJS Special Issue Jewish Worlds of the Global South: Conversations Across Latin America and Oceania. 📅 Abstract deadline: April 30, 2026 📄 Articles: approx. 7000 words 🔗 Full CFP & submission details: lajsa.org/cfp-jewish-w... 📩 Info: globalsouthlajs@gmail.com

📣 Call for Papers – MLA Convention 2027 (Los Angeles, 7–10 January 2027) Panel 1: Emancipatory Testimony Panel 2: Diaspora, Literature, Global City - Focusing on “Jewish Los Angeles” Submission: • 250-word abstract (ENG) • 2-page CV • By March 25, 2027 • Send: spridgeo@bates.edu

🌍📚 Webinar: On March 8 (1 PM EST), Prof. Willem Klooster explores how Iberian Jews rebuilt Jewish life across Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas, creating vibrant transatlantic networks of trade, culture, and faith. 🔗 Register to join: jewishheritagealliance.com/register-for...