Mensaje de las editoras / Message from the Editors. Contents LATIN AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES FALL Volume 33.1 ESSN

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1 LATIN AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES FALL 2013 Volume 33.1 ESSN Contents Message from the Editors... 1 Message from the Presidents... 2 Secretariat... 3 Executive Board Members... 3 Board of Directors... 4 Publications... 5 Fiction and Poetry... 7 Awards... 7 Scholarships... 9 Conferences Courses and Seminars Book and Journal Presentations Memorials Calls for papers Fellowships Journals Web and Archival Resources Film showings Pictures from the LAJSA Conference in Austin TX LAJSA and Amilat at the Sixteenth WUJS Congress 39 Summaries of presentations de miembros de LAJSA Book Reviews Articles Obituaries Financial Statement (October 17, 2013) MEMBERSHIP FORM Mensaje de las editoras / Message from the Editors Dear LAJSA friends, This number of LAJS is our largest one to date. As you will see from photos, conference programs, and the summaries of papers presented at our international congresses in Austin (LAJSA) and in Jerusalem (AMILAT), the publications, presentations and awards LAJSA members have kept actively participating in national and international conferences. We now look forward to receiving abstracts for the LAJSA Regional Conference that will take place on May 1 and 2, 2014, in New York City, 1

2 coordinated by Nora Glickman and Ronnie Perelis. We also take advantage of this opportunity to ask you that you keep sending us material for our future issue LAJS, including book reviews, conference news, publications, awards, dissertations, etc. Best wishes, Nora Glickman y Ariana Huberman, co- editors Mensaje de los presidentes / Message from the Presidents additional proof of the vitality of our scholarly association and assures the future of LAJSA. For stories and pictures from this conference go to: /6777 Preparations for the XVII International Research Conference have already started and a call for proposals for a venue should be out soon. Within a few weeks you will receive the call for papers for the NYC 2014 Regional Conference co- organized by our colleagues, Nora Glickman and Ronnie Perelis. It will be in the Northern Hemisphere Spring of 2014; the exact dates will be announced when they have been established. LAJSA's secretary, Margalit Bejarano, and Board member, Amalia Ran, will oversee forthcoming elections, as both of us will step down by spring, 2014 and new authorities will step in. We hope that all members take part in these elections. Dear LAJSA Friends, As we begin a new season, we would like to update you about recent developments and new initiatives in our association. In June 2013, we held the XVI International Research Conference of LAJSA, co- sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin. Well organized and with a rich program, it brought together researchers from different countries,disciplines and generations. We were particularly impressed by the strong presence s, young scholars who are about to complete their dissertations or have recently done so. Such presence serves as an Our publication, Latin American Jewish Studies, is going from strength to strength. We would like to thank Nora Glickman and Ariana Huberman for their excellent job. The importance of the bulletin as a resource in our expanding field is evidenced by our new arrangement with EBSCOhost databases. Under the leadership of LAJSA- list and Website Manager Naomi Lindstrom, our website is becoming richer in information. Please visit: Of special note is the expanded and updated registry of dissertations and theses on Latin American Jewish topics at ertations- theses.php If you know of any thesis or dissertation, whether completed or in progress, that is not listed, please contact the 2

3 content manager at With its new web site, a PayPal system to facilitate joining LAJSA, the new membership directory, and the richer bulletin, we can now better contribute to the development of our field. All of this could not have been done without the cooperation and work of our board members, each of whom deserves our thanks. As the season begins, we would like expand the circle of active contributors to LAJSA, so we invite all LAJSA members to send us their ideas and to tell us how they would like to help in LAJSA's work. We feel it is important to include more people in the activities of the association. Do not hesitate to write to us at raanan@post.tau.ac.il eaizenberg@mmm.edu Un cordial saludo, Edna Aizenberg and Raanan Rein, Co- Presidents Secretariat/ Secretariado Margalit Bejarano Secretary Institute of Contemporary Jewry Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91905, Israel Miembros del comité ejecutivo/ Executive Board Members Edna Aizenberg Co President Department of Spanish Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71 St., NY, NY 10021, USA Raanan Rein Co President Department of History Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Darrell B. Lockhart Treasurer Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures MS 100 University of Nevada- Reno Reno, NV , USA Nora Glickman Editor (Ex- Officio) Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures Queens College and the Graduate Center City University of New York Kissena Boulevard Flushing, NY 11367, USA Ariana Huberman Editor (Ex- Officio) Department of Spanish Haverford College Hall Building 370 Lancaster Avenue Haverford, PA 19041, USA Naomi Lindstrom LAJSA- list and Website Manager (Ex- Officio) Department of Spanish and Portuguese/ Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies BEN University Station B3700 Austin, TX , USA 3

4 Board of Directors Adriana M. Brodsky History Kent Hall, Rm. 304 St. Mary's College of Maryland E. Fisher Rd. St. Mary's City, MD , USA Judith Laikin Elkin LAJSA Founding President Frankel Center for Judaic Studies The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA Elisa Cohen de Chervonagura Universidad Nacional de Tucumán San Lorenzo Tucumán, Argentina Ronnie Perelis Yeshiva University Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies 500 West 185th St. New York, NY USA Amalia Ran Tel Aviv University Emek Dotan 39/5 Modin Israel Stephen A. Sadow Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures 400 ME Northeastern University Boston, MA USA Saúl Sosnowski Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SLLC University of Maryland College Park, MD USA 4

5 Publicaciones / Publications David Serrano Blanquer, Isaac Borojovich y la memoria uruguaya de la Shoá Montevideo: Trilce, 2013 ISBN: pages, copyright 2013, ISBN ISBN (e book) "Escaping Hitler" is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family's escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the socio- historical context of the 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi Party had an active presence in the country's major institutions. Based primarily on interviews with German Jewish refugees and family correspondence, Eva Wyman provides an intimate account of Jews in Germany in the 1930s as Nazi controls tightened and family members were taken to Riga and Theresienstadt concentration camps. Recounted in an intimate and personal style, "Escaping Hitler" immerses the reader in an extraordinary chapter of Contemporary Jewish history inside both Germany and South America. Mollie Lewis Nouwen, Oy, My Buenos Aires: Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity, University of New Mexico Press. 192 pages; ISBN For more information mollienouwen@gmail.com, the website associated with the book is: &Page=book Raanan Rein, Claudio Panella (comps.) Cultura para todos: El suplemento de la prensa cegetista ( ), Editorial Biblioteca Nacional, 2013 ISBN Eva Goldschmidt Wyman, Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Haven in Chile, The University of Alabama Press at Tuscaloosa. 219 Dalia Wassner, Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina, Brill's Jewish Latin America series. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 5

6 2013. ISBN13: E- ISBN: In Harbinger of Modernity: Marcos Aguinis and the Democratization of Argentina, Dalia Wassner presents an integrated analysis of the civic work and literary oeuvre of Marcos Aguinis, who served as Secretary of Culture to democracy. Situating his writings in their historical and intellectual context, Wassner dialectic of modernization as a Jewish public intellectual equally dedicated to fostering Argentine democracy and to inscribing himself in the annals of westernization. Encompassing intellectual history, literary criticism, Latin work illuminates the intersecting roles of Jews and public intellectuals in bringing democracy to post- dictatorship Argentina. Mario Sznajder, Luis Roniger and Carlos Forment, eds. Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience (Brill, 2013) ISBN13: E- ISBN: Daniela Gleizer, Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, Leiden and Boston: Brill, ISBN13: E- ISBN: , Translated by Susan Thomae Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post- revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje the people and the ideological basis of national identity by turning away foreigners considered Through her analysis of rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, , which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award Lindstrom, Naomi. "La narrativa profética y apocalíptica en una novela de Mario Satz". Hispanic Journal 34.1 (2013):

7 Graff Zivin, Erin. En el nombre de Dios and Jom O Judeu. CR: The New Centennial Review 12.3 (Winter 2012) Liz Hamui (UNAM) y Susana Brauner (UNTREF) "Etnicidad y diásporas: mexicanos y argentinos judíos de origen sirio en la primera mitad del Ficción y poesía / Fiction and Poetry siglo XX" en Diversidad Intercultural. net. Revista de los docentes e investigadores de la maestría y el instituto de diversidad cultural. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Año 3 Número 5, diciembre de 2012 (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ISSN acquired archives of writers ranging from Isaac Bashevis Singer to Jorge Luis Borges. These categories of scholars are eligible to apply: * researchers holding doctoral degrees who are on the faculty of Latin American universities Nuevo poemario: Isaac Goldemberg. Diálogos conmigo y mis otros. Houston: Literal Publishing, págs. ISBN Mailing Address: Literal Publishing Inc., 5425 Renwick Dr., Houston, TX Premios/ Awards Travel Award for Research on Latin American Jewish topics at the University of Texas at Austin The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin announces an opportunity for a scholar based in a Latin American country to carry out research on a Latin American Jewish topic utilizing the libraries, archives, or museums of the University. The University of Texas at Austin is home to the Benson Latin American Collection, with its extensive holdings of Latin American periodical publications, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, which has * research specialists in Latin American museums or other types of research institutes * students at Latin American universities who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees The maximum amount of the award is $4000, which may be used to cover airfare and lodging. The recipient must agree to stay in Austin for 7-14 days. We recommend that applicants obtain from their home institutions a contribution to cover food and local transportation during their stay. The research trips should take place during a time when the University of Texas is in session to allow the visiting scholar to interact with University faculty and students with similar research interests. Toward the end of his or her stay, the award recipient will be expected to offer a talk presenting the results of the research. To apply, you should submit by November 30, 2013: 7

8 * a letter detailing your area of research and the specific benefit that you would derive from access to materials in the University of Texas collections. * your current curriculum vitae * a letter of nomination from the academic director of your home institution, indicating whether it has funds available to help support you in case you win the award The results of the competition will be announced in February Please send all materials (as a PDF) to: Ms. Galit Pedahzur, Program Coordinator Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies galit@austin.utexas.edu David Sheinin (dsheinin@trent.ca), Coordinator, 2013 LAJSA Research Awards The award for best LAJSA dissertation was given to: Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan, "Entre la aceptación y el distanciamiento: actitudes sociales, posicionamientos y memoria de la experiencia judía durante la última dictadura militar ( )," History, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, November 2010 There were two honorable mentions: Alejandro Dujovne, "Impresiones del judaísmo: Una sociología histórica de la producción y circulación transacional del libro en el colectivo social judío de Buenos Aires, ," Social Sciences, IDES/Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, March Bea Dora Gurwitz, "From the New World to the Third World: Generation, Politics and the Making of Argentine Jewish Ethnicity ( )," History, University of California, 8 Berkeley, Fall 2012 The award for best LAJSA book went to: Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein, eds., The New Jewish Argentina There were two honorable mentions: Daniela Gleizer, El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos Elisa Cohen de Chervonagura, La comunidad Judia de Tucumán. Hombres y mujeres, historias y discursos Travel Award for Research on Latin American Jewish topics at the University of Texas at Austin The Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin announces an opportunity for a scholar based in a Latin American country to carry out research on a Latin American Jewish topic utilizing the libraries, archives, or museums of the University. The University of Texas at Austin is home to the Benson Latin American Collection, with its extensive holdings of Latin American periodical publications, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, which has acquired archives of writers ranging from Isaac Bashevis Singer to Jorge Luis Borges. These categories of scholars are eligible to apply: * researchers holding doctoral degrees who are on the faculty of Latin American universities * research specialists in Latin American museums or other types of research institutes

9 * students at Latin American universities who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees The maximum amount of the award is $4000, which may be used to cover airfare and lodging. The recipient must agree to stay in Austin for 7-14 days. We recommend that applicants obtain from their home institutions a contribution to cover food and local transportation during their stay. The research trips should take place during a time when the University of Texas is in session to allow the visiting scholar to interact with University faculty and students with similar research interests. Toward the end of his or her stay, the award recipient will be expected to offer a talk presenting the results of the research. To apply, you should submit by November 30, 2013: * a letter detailing your area of research and the specific benefit that you would derive from access to materials in the University of Texas collections. * your current curriculum vitae * a letter of nomination from the academic director of your home institution, indicating whether it has funds available to help support you in case you win the award The results of the competition will be announced in February galit@austin.utexas.edu We welcome your applications. Sincerely, Naomi Lindstrom Acting Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies. Becas / Scholarships The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is pleased to present the Fred and Ellen Lewis JDC Archives Fellowship, for which applications for Latinamericanist projects using the JDC archives are welcome. One or two fellowships will be awarded each year to deserving scholars engaged in graduate level, post- doctoral, or independent study to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or Jerusalem. Research topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, general history, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections. The amount granted will range from $2000 to $5000 per fellow. Applications for the 2014 Fellowship will be accepted until January 1, Qualified candidates are encouraged to click the links below to apply. Fred and Ellen Lewis JDC Archives Fellowship Application Form Fred and Ellen Lewis JDC Archives Fellowship Reference Form Please send all materials as a PDF to: Ms. Galit Pedahzur, Program Coordinator Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies 9

10 Conferencias/ Conferences 16 th International Research Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association Hosted by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies University of Texas at Austin Co- Sponsors: Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) Department of Spanish and Portuguese Department of History Department of Religious Studies Program in Comparative Literature Sunday, June 9 th Literature CLA 1.302B Chair: Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan (IdIHCS/UNLP- CONICET) La Kehilá como espacio de confluencia de pasiones y tensiones sociales Elisa Cohen de Chervonagura (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán) erature in Argentina Darrell B. Lockhart (University of Nevada, Reno) Dos que se eligen: etnografías sobre la exogamia en Argentina Ezequiel Erdei (JDC- ICCD) 1.2: Las fronteras simbólicas de la comunidad judía y el Estado Nacional CLA 1.302D Chair: Paulette Kershenovich Schuster (Independent Scholar) La comunidad judeo- mexicana: una burbuja? Shulamit Goldsmith Brindis (Universidad Iberoamericana): 10

11 La izquierda judía en México: Fraiwelt y la Liga Popular Israelita, Naty Gurvich- Okon (Universidad Iberoamericana) El bundismo, construcciones sobre el obrero mexicano: hermanos en lucha, empleados y crítica al movimiento obrero mexicano Tamara Gleason Freidberg (UNAM) "Esos antisemitismo y fascismo en Chile, Gustavo Guzmán- Castro (Universidad de Chile) 2.1: Atlantic Jews and Their Relations with Native American Communities CLA 1.302D Chair: Eduardo Faingold (University of Tulsa) Jews and Their Intercultural Connections to Native Communities in Western Africa and the Caribbean: Amerindians and Jews in Dutch Colonial Suriname Jessica Vance Roitman (KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian & Caribbean Studies) Expendable Allies: Jews and Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Surinam, Michael Rom (Yale University) Intercultural Relations between Sephardic Jews and Native Communities on the Guajira Peninsula and the Mosquito Shore during the 17 th and 18 th Centuries Christian Cwik (Universidad de la Habana. 2.2: Presencia Judía en Colombia, Venezuela y el Caribe CLA 1.302E Chair: Judith Laikin Elkin (University of Michigan) Judíos y árabes- cristianos en Barranquilla, Paula Daccarett (University of California, Santa Cruz) De María a Josefina: exogamia y supervivencia judía en la comunidad sefardita curazoleña Blanca de Lima (Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda) Josette Capriles Goldish (Hadassah- Brandeis Institute) 2.3: Borges and (Latin American) Jewish Writing CLA 1.302B Chair: Edna Aizenberg (Marymount Manhattan College) 11

12 Borges and Yiddish Alan Astro (Trinity University) Un salmo vanguardista de Borges Daniel Nahson (SUNY, Oneanta) Borges, Arendt, and the Inscription of the Ashkenazi Jew in Nuevo Sefarad Max Sloves (UCLA) The Marrano, the Madman, and the Margin Yitzhak Lewis (Columbia University) Presentation of Recently Published Books CLA 1.302B Keynote Address CLA 1.302B Texas Jews: History, Heritage, and Myth Bryan Edward Stone (Del Mar College) Reception in Central Area of Glickman Conference Center Monday, June 10 th 3.1: Jewish Cuba CLA 1.302B Chair: Mollie Lewis- Nouwen (University of South Alabama) Medinat Yisrael and the Jewish Community of Cuba in the 1950s Rosa Perelmuter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Friday Nights in Jewish Cuba Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb (University of Texas at Austin) The Uses of Anti- Semitism in Nineteenth- Century Cuba Stephen Silverstein (Baylor University) 3.2: Educación: Recreando la identidad minoritaria CLA 1.302D Chair: Paula Daccarett (University of California, Santa Cruz) Educación judía: guardando las particularidades en un mundo global. Retos y alternativas 12

13 Raquel Torenberg (Colegio Hebreo Sefaradí) Escuelas judías o escuelas para judíos? La transmisión del legado en la escuela Esther Charabati Nehmad (UNAM) Integración y diversidad en la experiencia de las escuelas judías mexicanas Martha Corenstein Saslav (UNAM) Jewish Education in La Plata in the Early 20th Century Eduardo Faingold (University of Tulsa) 3.3: Media Resources for Teaching Latin American Jewish Literature and Culture Courses: An Information- Sharing Session CLA 1.302E Lydia M. Gil (University of Denver) Nora Glickman (Queens College- CUNY) Ariana Huberman (Haverford College) Naomi Lindstrom (University of Texas at Austin) Stephen A. Sadow (Northeastern University) 3.4: Dissertation proposals CLA 1.302C Chair: Adriana M. Brodsky The power of literature and the fabric of community: the wartime writing of Rabbi Nachman of Braslav and Jorge Luis Borges Yitzhak Lewis (Columbia University) Travelling, writing, remembering. Argentina, Poland and bridges between Jewish worlds (Giessen University) 4.1: Geografías de la circulación transnacional judía en América Latina 1 CLA 1.302B Chair: Alejandro Dujovne (IDES- Conicet) The New Idishe Milonga: Jewish Records and Digital Memory at Fundación IWO Lilian Wohl (University of Chicago) 13

14 es Jewish Musicians and the Transnational Emergence of Musical Populism, Pablo Palomino (University of California, Berkeley) La voz judeo- mexicana en el mapa (trans)nacional. Migraciones de Gloria Gervitz Jacqueline Bialostozky (University of California, Berkeley) 4.2: Vida y letras judías argentinas CLA 1.302E Chair: Naomi Lindstrom (University of Texas at Austin) Visiones de letras y números en la escritura de Mario Satz Ariana Huberman (Haverford College) The Latin American Focus at Four International Sephardic Studies Symposia held in Buenos Aires by the Centro de Investigación y Difusión de la Cultura Sefaradí (CIDiCSeF) Ricardo Djaen (CIDiCSeF) Máximo José Kahn, el año que viene en Latinoamérica María Gabriela Mizraje (UNSAM) 5.1: CLA 1.302D Latinoamerica Marquesa Macadar (Indiana University, Bloomington) Paulette Kershenovich Schuster (Independent Scholar) Evelyn Dean- Olmstead (Southern Illinois University) 5.2: Geografías de la circulación transnacional judía en América Latina 2 CLA 1.302E Chair: Pablo Palomino (University of California, Berkeley) Un caso de transnacionalismo intenso: Buenos Aires en la geografía editorial judía de posguerra Alejandro Dujovne (IDES- Conicet) Diasporic Contestations: The Argentine- Jewish Reception of American Jewishness in the 1960s and 1970s Beatrice Gurwitz (University of Maryland, College Park) Buenos Aires Seen from Warsaw: Poland's Jewish Press Reporting on Jewish Communities in Argentina 14

15 (Giessen University) 5.3: Brazilian Jewish Literature CLA 1.302B Chair and Commentator: Monique Rodrigues Balbuena (Clark Honors College, University of Oregon) Two- Faced Centaurs and Scapegoated Women: Hypocrisy, Mi O centauro no jardim James Hussar (California State University, Fullerton) Contrapuntal Identity in Elisa Lispector's No exílio Jonathan Fleck (University of Texas at Austin) 6.1: Jews and National Politics in Argentina and Mexico CLA 1.302B Chair: Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University) David M. K. Sheinin (Trent University) El conflicto árabe- ísraelí al calor del proceso de radicalización política argentina ( ) Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan (IdIHCS/UNLP- CONICET) Historia, memoria y política: la disputa en torno al cónsul Gilberto Bosques Daniela Gleizer (UAM- C) 6.2: Expresiones Culturales y rasgos identitarios de los inmigrantes del Medio Oriente y sus descendientes en América Latina CLA 1.302D Chair and Commentator: Liz Hamui (UNAM) Syrian Jewish Mexican Lives as Alternative Modernities Evelyn Dean- Olmstead (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) Cómo recordar lo que se confunde al nombrar?: mnemotecnias de la comunidad judía llegada de Beirut y Damasco al Río de la Plata Marquesa Macadar (Indiana University, Bloomington (Re)Leyendo las recientes dictaduras en Argentina y Brasil desde experiencias femeninas judías CLA 1.302E Chair: Florinda F. Goldberg (Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalem) 15

16 - A chave da casa Alexandru V. Lefter (University of Pittsburgh) Gender, Religion, and Trauma in the Southern Cone: Marginal Contributions to National Programs of Truth and Reconciliation Dalia Wassner (The Hadassah- Brandeis Institute) Lo que nosotras sabíamos de María Inés Krimer: sujetos femeninos marginales y apropiación de espacios historiográficos Daniela Goldfine (University of Minnesota) Tour of Resources for Jewish Studies in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection Meets in Benson Latin American Collection, Sid Richardson Hall Unit 1, first floor Open House: Latin American Jewish Creative Writers and Artists' Books Central Area of Glickman Conference Center Moderator: Darrell B. Lockhart (University of Nevada, Reno) Homage to Manuela Fingueret ( ) Darrell B. Lockhart Readings by Myriam Moscona from Tela de sevoya Judith Laikin Elkin from Walking Made My Path María Gabriela Mizraje from selected poems Ann Helen Wainer from Family Portrait: A Memoir of a Jewish Family during the Holocaust Eva Goldschmidt Wyman from Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Haven in Chile Tuesday, June 11 th - territorializacion: un nuevo judío errante? CLA 1.302E Chair: James Hussar (California State University, Fullerton) hispano- norteamericano- judios Florinda F. Goldberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 16

17 Una ciudad fantasmal en El testigo de Sergio Chejfec Silvia Berger (Smith College) Adriana Jacobs (Yale University) 7.2: Reflections on Memory after the AMIA Bombing CLA 1.302B Natasha Zaretsky (Rutgers University) Annette Levine (Ithaca College) Edna Aizenberg (Marymount Manhattan College) Lillian Wohl (University of Chicago) 7.3: Cultural empresarial y tradición comunitaria entre los judíos de origen sirio en distintos entornos latinoamericanos CLA 1.302D Chair: Devi Mays (Indiana University, Bloomington) Identidad y prácticas económicas: empresarios judíos y ortodoxos de origen sirio en Argentina, desde el menemismo al kirchnerismo Susana Brauner (UNTREF) Cultura judía y negocios: la importancia de los códigos no escritos Linda Hanono (Universidad Iberoamericana) Éxito económico y filantropía: historia de una empresa familiar judeo- alepina mexicana en el entorno comunitario y nacional Liz Hamui (UNAM) Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) Tour of the Judaica Collection of the Humanities Research Center, including the papers of Isaac Bashevis Singer. 8.1: La cultura y la lengua sefaradí frente a la desaparición de la lengua CLA 1.302E Jacobo Sefamí (University of California, Irvine) Monique Rodrigues Balbuena (Clark Honors College, University of Oregon) 17

18 Myriam Moscona (Writer) 8.2: Popular Culture in Jewish Buenos Aires: Criminals, Yiddish Theater, and actresses, CLA 1.302D Chair: David M. K. Sheinin (Trent University) Scandalous Stories: Jewish Criminals in Crítica, Mollie Lewis Nouwen (University of South Alabama) Berta Singerman and the Literary Cartographies of César Tiempo Megan Coxe (University of Texas at Austin) "Teatro es escuela": Debates en torno a la legitimación del repertorio en el teatro ídish argentino ( ) Silvia Hansman/Susana Skura (YIVO) 9.1: Latin American Jewish Imaginaries: Sports, Money, and TV CLA 1.302E Chair: Megan Coxe (University of Texas at Austin) Nation and Sports in the Latin American Jewish Imaginary Alejandro Meter (University of San Diego) Quiénes somos, cómo somos? El imaginario social colectivo según los avisos publicitarios del semanario chileno Mundo Judío, Claudia Stern (Tel Aviv University) 9.2: Women, Gender and Sexuality CLA 1.302B Chair: Evelyn Dean- Olmstead (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) Cross- Cultural Perspectives of Jewish- Mexican Women Living in Israel, Paulette Kershenovich Schuster (Independent Scholar) "Between Desdemona and Othello": Jewish Honor, Gender, and Sexuality in a México City Murder Devi Mays (Indiana University, Bloomington) Converso Subtexts in the Exchange between Sor Juana and the Bishop of Puebla Pamela Kirk Rappaport Rabinas 18

19 Valeria Cababié- Schindler (Florida International University) 9.3: Latin American Jewish Studies from the Margins CLA 1.302D Rebecca Marquis (Gonzaga University) Bridget Kevane (Montana State University) Darrell B. Lockhart (University of Nevada, Reno) Matthew Warshawsky (University of Portland) LAJSA Business Session and Awards Ceremony The Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies Jerusalem, July 28 August 1, 2013 Domingo 28 de julio 2013 Sección de América Latina Democracia, comunidades y refugiados (800) Moderador: Efraim Zadoff Carlos Escudé (Najmán ben Abraham Avinu): Reflexiones en torno del atentado a la AMIA a casi veinte años de su perpetración Jessica Pauker Nosotros los condenados? Reconstrucción de la experiencia judía en Bolivia 19

20 Edith Marsiglia: Las expresiones culturales producto de las diásporas de los exiliados judíos italianos entre los años 1938 y 1950 en Argentina y Uruguay Shoá (801) Moderador: Yossi (Jorge) Goldstein Efraim Zadoff: Participación de cónsules latinoamericanos en los intentos de salvamento desde Suiza de judíos en la Europa conquistada por Alemania ( ) Daniela Gleizer: La gestión del cónsul mexicano Gilberto Bosques en Marsella ( ): nuevos hallazgos Europa David Velázquez Seiferheld: El Paraguay ante el Holocausto y la situación de los judíos en David Telias: La Shoá en la educación de los jóvenes judíos uruguayos Identidades sefaradíes: Entre lo colectivo y lo individual (802) Moderadora: Naomi Lindstrom Adriana Brodsky: La juventud sefaradí en la Argentina y en Israel, Silvina Schammah Gesser: Cultura subversiva y etnicidad: En torno a la (in)visibilidad y esencialización de las nuevas generaciones de argentinos judíos de origen meso- oriental Margalit Bejarano: Sionismo sefaradí transnacional: Salomón Garazi y FESELA de Miami Biblioteca de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Presentación ** Denise Rein: The Latin American Collection in the Central Archive of the Jewish People Biblioteca de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Sesión de Apertura de la Sección América Latina** Moderador: Dr. Yossi J. Goldstein Palabras de apertura: Dr. Silvia Schenkolewski- Kroll Salutaciones: Prof. Yosef Kaplan and Prof. Judit Bokser Liwerant Prof. (Emeritus) Haim Avni: Presentación de JUDAICA LATINOAMERICANA VII Acto de Apertura del XVI Congreso Mundial de Estudios Judaicos Lunes 29 de julio

21 Época colonial y colonización (803) Moderador: Mordechai Arbell Luz del Rocío Bermúdez Hernández: la disidencia, Chiapas (México), siglos XVI XIX Michael Rom: The Jew as a Chameleon: Jewish- Indigenous Relations in Colonial Surinam Yehuda Levin: Del rabino Samuel Halphon hasta el rabino Hirsch Aschkenazi: La vida religiosa en las colonias judías de Argentina, Silvio Gric: Interacciones entre protagonistas centrales en la colonia Narcisse Leven y su repercusión en la cooperativa "El Progreso" Demografía, aliah y transiciones (804) Moderador: Sergio DellaPergola Yaacov Rubel: El perfil socio- demográfico y el origen geográfico de la población judía de toda la República Argentina de acuerdo al Censo Nacional de 1895: Confirmaciones, discrepancias y hallazgos impensados Paulette Kershenovich Schuster: Perspectivas transculturales de mujeres judeo- mexicanas viviendo en Israel, Deby Babis: Antiguos y nuevos rumbos: La comunidad judia de Cochabamba (Bolivia) en el siglo XXI Sebastián Klor: La aliah de Argentina al Estado de Israel, Pertenencias, lenguas, religiosidades y legados (805) Moderador: Carlos Escudé (Najmán ben Abraham Avinu) Batia Siebzehner: Ultra ortodoxia y etnicidad: Redefinición de las fronteras de pertenencia en México y Panamá Daniel Spitalnik: Sephardic Liturgical Chant: Interviewing a Cantor in Rio de Janeiro Ari Bursztein: De Odessa a Mendoza: La fundación de la comunidad judía de Mendoza a través de los ojos del hebraísta y educador Isaac Spivacoff ( ) Arte y documentación (806) Moderadora: Silvina Schammah Gesser Alicia Segal: Ser judía, ciudadana y fotógrafa mujer 21

22 Film Alejandro Meter: Dreams of Victory: Soccer and the Shaping of the Nation in Brazilian Jewish 22 Moshe Nes- El: Historia de la prensa judía en Chile, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace Facultad de Humanidades; Centro Liwerant para el Estudio de América Latina, España y Portugal y sus Comunidades Judías; AMILAT (Asociación de Investigadores del Judaísmo Latinoamericano) Homenaje a la Prof. Java Turniansky y al Prof. Yosef Kaplan laureados con el Premio Israel 2013 Martes 30 de julio 2013 Literatura 1 (807) Moderadora: Nancy Rozenchan Florinda F. Goldberg: Pérdida y reconstrucción del espacio identitario en la literatura judeo- latinoamericana. Naomi Lindstrom: El discurso de los personajes visionarios en la narrativa de Moacyr Scliar Regina Igel: O incurável judeu errante como personagem literario latino- americano Moacir Amâncio: O cristão novo na literatura brasileira atual Literatura 2 (808) Moderadora: Batia Siebzehner Alexandru V. Lefter: (auto)biográfico en La música de Julia de Alicia Steimberg Corinna Deppner: Oscilaciones entre magia y logos, entre letra y número: El pensamiento cabalístico en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges Gabriela Jonas Aharoni: La identidad judía en la ficción televisiva de Argentina Refrigerio y presentación de libros por participantes en la Sección América latina: Guerra, tragédia, e humor (809) Moderadora: Berta Waldman Berta Waldman: Jorge Amado: As crônicas da II Guerra Lyslei Nascimento: A miniaturização do mundo em A Guerra no Bom Fim, de Moacyr Scliar

23 Saul Kirschbaum: O ponto cego em Brasil, país do futuro Nancy Rozenchan: Tres mosqueteros de Marcelo Birmajer, e o humor judaico Judaísmo nos trópicos: A língua iídiche como reforço identitário na América Latina do século XX (810) Moderadora: Helena Lewin Helena Lewin: A política demográfica no Brasil e a inserção do imigrante judeu Dina Lida Kinoshita: A literatura iídiche no Brasil Esther Kuperman: ICUF: A esquerda judaica no Brasil Tertulia literaria - coorganizada por AMILAT y la revista literaria NOAJ in memoriam MANUELA FINGUERET ( ) Homenaje a Manuela Fingueret: Dalia Dubcovsky, Shani Navon, Yael Shrem (Israel) Lectura de textos Hamutal Bar Yosef (Israel) Nora Glickman (Argentina- EE.UU.) Elías Sherbacovsky (Argentina- Israel) Moderadora: Florinda F. Goldberg Miércoles 31 de julio 2013 Prácticas transnacionales, globalización y nuevas diásporas de judíos latinoamericanos (811) Moderadora: Anita Weinstein Yossi (Jorge) Goldstein: Educación y educadores judíos latinoamericanos transnacionales la construcción de una diáspora de conocimientos en un mundo globalizado Marcelo Dorfsman: Educador judío transnacional: Nuevas perspectivas para su formación y actualización en contextos globalizados Yael Siman: Entre las teorías sobre transnacionalismo y los estudios empíricos: nuevos criterios de medición para explicar la vida judía latinoamericana en el siglo XXI Nuevas miradas transnacionales sobre experiencias de los judíos de/ en América Latina: abordajes conceptuales y metodológicos (812) 23

24 Moderadora: Judit Bokser Liwerant Perla Aizencang Kane: La presencia de israelíes en México: Un nuevo espacio social transnacional? Maya Shorer Kaplan: Patterns and Trends in Jewish Latin- American Migration: Uruguayan Jews in Uruguay, in Israel, and in the World Bertha (Betty) Mendlovic Pasol: Museización de la Shoá en México como construcción de una memoria cultural: El momento transnacional en un contexto nacional Leonel Levy: Una mirada transnacional al fenómeno religioso: Transformaciones en la vida judía comunitaria a comienzos del siglo veintiuno. Estudio sobre una comunidad judía emergente en México, Distrito Federal Nuevos enfoques en el cine judío iberoamericano contemporáneo (813) Moderadora: Florinda F. Goldberg 24 Tzvi Tal: Judíos y palestinos en el cine iberoamericano Graciela Michelotti: La cámara oscura: Salir de la sombra Nora Glickman: Cine judeo- argentino: Inmigración, tango y prostitución Película: La cámara oscura Argentina Directora: María V. Menis El argumento se desarrolla en las colonias agrícolas judías de Argentina. En español con subtítulos en inglés. Diaspora and Transnationalism: Shifting Grounds among European and Latin American Jewry Chair: Sergio Della Pergola Eric Cohen: European Jews Today Judith Bokser Liwerant: Latin American Jewish Life: New Paths of Interaction and New Worlds of Identities Luis Roniger: New Transnational Alliances, Communities, and Networks Leonardo Senkman: Transnational Migration and the New Diasporic Experience among Jewish Intellectuals outside Latin America Jueves 1º de agosto 2013 Sionismo e Israel (814) Moderador: Yosef Rozen

25 Graciela Ben- Dror: El movimiento sionista- socialista en Uruguay: el caso del Movimiento Mordejai Anilevich, desde una perspectiva transnacional, Irene Stoliar: Historia del movimiento Hashomer Hatzair en Cuba Silvia Schenkolewski- Kroll: Transnacionalismo y educación judía no- formal: El caso de Macabi Buenos Aires Guilherme Casarões and Tullo Vigevani: O lugar de Israel na política exterior do Brasil Identidades políticas y religiosas (815) Moderadora: Silvia Schenkolewski- Kroll Eva Alterman Blay: Encruzilhadas da identidade: Comunismo X Sionismo Valeria Navarro: Comunista y judío: el caso de Carlos Berger Daniel Bargman: Topografías judaicas y redes transnacionales: Una aproximación antropológica a las religiosidades judías en Buenos Aires Taller de Investigación y Enseñanza del Holocausto en Universidades Latinoamericanas Organizado por el Centro Internacional para la Enseñanza Universitaria de la Civilización Judía (UHJ), en colaboración con AMILAT Coordinador académico: Leonardo Senkman Panel 1: Entre dos mundos: La Shoá en la literatura y memoria de América Latina Berta Waldman (Universidade de São Paulo) Saul Kirschbaum (Universidade de São Paulo) Edith Marsiglia (Arizona State University) Bertha Mendlovic (Universidad Iberoamericana, México) Comentaristas: Manuela Consonni, Leonardo Senkman Panel 2: Rescate de refugiados judíos por diplomáticos latinoamericanos Daniela Gleizer (UAM- Guajimalpa- México) David Velázquez Seiferheld (Universidad de Asunción, Paraguay) Efraim Zadoff (Centro Liwerant, UHJ) Comentaristas: Haim Avni, Avraham Milgram 25

26 Acto de Clausura del XVI Congreso Mundial de Estudios Judaicos Workshop: Estudios sobre judíos en/de América Latina Adriana Brodsky, Florinda Goldberg, Margalit Bejarano, Judit Liwerant, Alejandro Meter, Leo Senkman, Anita Weinstein, Haim Avni, Graciela Ben- Dror, Sergio DellaPergola, Efraim Zadoff y Naomi Lindstrom Viernes 26 de Julio, 2013 Mishkenot Dinámica y temáticas de trabajo Estudios Transnacionales y Estudios de Diásporas en el judaísmo contemporáneo latinoamericano. Estudios de Transnacionalismo Estudios de Diáspora Judaísmo Contemporáneo Lugar del análisis comparativo en el estudio de los judíos en/de America Latina Conclusiones del Workshop: Sergio DellaPergola, Judit Bokser Liwerant, Leonardo Senkman. Universidad ORT Uruguay. Departamento de Estudios Judaicos: Gourmet, Judaísmo Kosher, Judaísmo Halájico y A cargo de Diego Freedman, Coordinador de Programas de Investigación y Desarrollo Comunitario The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Miércoles 28 de agosto de 2013 Auditorio ORT Pocitos (Bvar. España 2633) Para más información: o estudiosjudaicos@ort.edu.uy fiction writers, and activist Marjorie Agosin; Cuban- borm and internationally recognized poet José Kozer; and award- winning translator and scholar Steve Sadow, was held on October 23, 2013 in the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Student Union and the Golda Meir Library. The free event includes a full day of readings, class workshops, and an evening panel discussion. There will be a major exhibition featuring Jewish Latin American artist's books from the collection of Steve Sadow and from the UMW Book Arts Collection in Special Collection at the UMW Libraries. Oct. 23, 2013 schedule: "La Mano y el Judío: A Bilingual Reading of Jewish Latin American Writing." Jewish Latin American Writers: A Symposium A symposium on Jewish Latin American Writers, featuring Chilean- American poet, essayist, Open Master Class with Marjorie Agosín, José Kozer, and Stephen Sadow. 26

27 "Jewish Thought, Latin Flavor: Jewish Literature in Latin America," a panel discussion. October 1- December 31, 2013: Library Exhibition: "Escribir la Experiencia Judía: Writing the Jewish Latin American Experience." For information about the symposium, please call Stephen Sadow or libspecial@uwm.edu Cursos y seminarios / Courses and Seminars Silel XIV Simpósio Nacional de Letras e Linguística IV Simposio Internacional de Letras e Linguística GT - Literatura e intolerância: da Inquisição ao Holocausto na literatura brasileira Coordenadoras: Kênia Maria de Almeida Pereira (UFU) - Lyslei Nascimento (UFMG) Anita Novinsky observa em Cristãos- novos na Bahia: a Inquisição, que O Santo Ofício em seu processo perseguidor mirava tanto os ricos necessitava para sustentar seus funcionários e o rico aparato com que se revestia, como os pobres sapateiros de Arrayolos, para justificar, barbárie com que tentava aniquilar o cristão- novo. Eric Hobsbawm, em Era dos extremos, afirma que o Holocausto (a Shoah) é fruto de uma xenofobia de raça, principalmente aos facilidade tudo o que havia de mais odioso num mundo injusto, inclusive seu compromisso com as ideias do Iluminismo e da Revolução Francesa que os tinham emancipado e, ao fazê- lo, os críticos, propomos um espaço de reflexão sobre esses dois fenômenos históricos e sua inscrição na literatura, notadamente marcada pela intolerância e pela perseguição explicita à comunidade judaica. Se no período colonial, os cristãos- novos ou os criptojudeus eram torturados pelo Santo Ofício, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, foram massacrados pelo Estado fascista. Inquisição e Holocausto são, portanto, dois momentos históricos que simbolizam o espaço do conflito e do ódio. Muitos poetas, cronistas e romancistas brasileiros, tanto escritores judeus brasileiros como não judeus não ficaram indiferentes a esses dois fenômenos. De Machado de Assis a Dias Gomes, de Castro Alves a Vinícius de Moraes, de Samuel Rawet a Moacyr Scliar, passando por Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Jorge Amado, vários artistas da palavra denunciaram ora de forma explícita ora por meio de metáforas e símbolos tanto a dor como a morte e as consequências funestas da Inquisição e do Holocausto na vida brasileira. Dessa forma, o objetivo deste GT é discutir autores brasileiros que tentaram traduzir em suas obras estes dois períodos que marcaram de forma tão contundente a cultura hebraica. Inscrições: inscricao.asp Presentaciones de libros y revistas/book and Journal Presentations Daniela Goldfine, Presentación de "Lo que nosotras sabíamos de María Inés Krimer: 27

28 sujetos femeninos marginales y apropiación de espacios historiográficos" en la XVI International Research Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association. Austin, Texas (Junio 2013). Homenajes/ Memorials Acto Central en la AMIA 19 años: La herida sigue abierta. Jueves 18 de julio, Presentación de "Birmajer, Burman, Winograd: Tres mosqueteros que no esperan al mesías. (Trans)Formaciones de la producción cultural judeo- argentina en el siglo XXI" en la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Buenos Aires, Argentina (Julio 2013) Sociedad Hebraica Argentina ZU&feature=youtu.be Acto Memoria Activa Miércoles 17 julio, 2013 Oradores: Estela de Carlotto - Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo 28 de Junio, Homenaje a Manuela Fingeret en HEBRAICA en el marco de la feria del libro judío. Raúl Kollman - Periodista - - Integrante de Memoria Activa Dpto. de Cultura Invitaciones a participar con trabajos escritos/ Calls for papers THIRD REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE 28 LATIN AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES ASSOCIATION CALL FOR PAPERS "LATIN AMERICAN JEWISH ENCOUNTERS: NORTH AND SOUTH" May 1-2, 2014 Thursday, May 1: 2 pm - 8 pm and Friday, May 2: 10 am - 3 pm LOCATIONS: Americas Society 680 Park Ave. New York, N.Y and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York 365 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y CO- ORGANIZERS: Nora Glickman (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Ronnie Perelis (Yeshiva University) We invite proposals for both panels and individual papers, though panel proposals are

29 especially favored. A panel consists of three paper presenters and a session chair who may be one of the presenters. Panel proposals may include a discussant who may not be one of the paper presenters. For panel proposals, please send a brief description of the panel topic and a description (150 words) of each paper, along with a list of the participants, their affiliations and contact information. Please be sure to include a title for the session and a title for each individual paper. The session organizer should submit the information from the participants in a single mailing. For individual paper proposals, please send a 150- word description of your paper along with a title. Identify your affiliation. Please remember that all presentations must be on topics in Latin American Jewish Studies and/or Sephardic Studies. We encourage papers with a comparative approach between North and South America. Participants and presenters need to become LAJSA members to be able to register for the conference. Presentations take up to 20 minutes (about 8 double spaced pages). They can be in Spanish or in English. Please note that, as has been the case with previous regional conferences in New York, most participants stay with friends or family members. If you would like suggestions about lodging, Please contact the co- organizers. LAJSA will not be able to provide hotel arrangements, child care, or travel grants. Please send your submissions via e- mail by January 15, 2013 to lajsa.nyc.2014@gmail.com We will notify panel and session proposers or our decisions by February 15). The proposals will be evaluated by a LAJSA subcommittee. If your contact information changes after you submit your proposal, please remember to notify the coordinators. This event is partly sponsored by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences Fellowships / Becas The United States Holocaust Memorial Studies awards fellowships on a competitive basis to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. We welcome proposals from scholars in all relevant academic disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, sociology, anthropology, comparative genocide studies, law, and others. The Center awards fellowships- in- residence to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD), postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars. 29

30 Because a principle focus of the program is to ensure the development of a new generation of Holocaust scholars, we especially encourage scholars early in their careers to apply. Applicants must be affiliated with an academic and/or research institution when applying for a fellowship. We will also consider immediate post- docs and faculty between appointments. The specific fellowship and the length of the awards generally range up to nine consecutive months of residency; a minimum of three consecutive months is required and no exceptions are allowed. Fellowships of five months or longer have proven most effective. Stipends range up to $3,500 per month for the purpose of defraying local housing and other miscellaneous living expenses. Residents of the Washington, DC metropolitan area receive a reduced stipend of $1,750 per month. Awards include a stipend to offset the cost of direct travel to and from Washington, DC. Residents of the Washington, DC metropolitan area do not receive a travel stipend. The funds provided through this award may be subject to US federal and/or state tax. Please be advised the Center cannot provide individual tax advice. The Center is able to provide visa assistance to fellows and their dependents, if necessary. Fellows are responsible for securing their own housing accommodations and health insurance. We do not provide support allowances for accompanying family members. The Center provides work space and access to a computer, telephone, facsimile machine, and photocopier. We encourage cost- sharing by home institutions or other relevant organizations to extend the residency of the applicant at the Center or to make possible additional research at other institutions in the Unites States and abroad. THE APPLICATION PROCESS Fellowship applications and supporting materials must be received by November 30, We will announce decisions in early April All applications must be submitted in English via our online application process at: and must include the following: An online application form A project proposal, in PDF format, not to exceed five single- spaced pages A curriculum vitae summary, in PDF format, not to exceed four single- spaced pages Two signed letters of recommendation that speak to the significance of the proposed Members of the Academic Committee of the United States Memorial Council may not write letters of recommendation. Please consult our list of Academic Committee Members. INQUIRIES Please direct inquiries to: Jo- Ellyn Decker, Program Coordinator Visiting Scholar Programs Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC (T) (F) vscholars@ushmm.org THE AWARDS The specific fellowship and length of award are 15 30