LAJSA is happy to announce that Tamara Gleason Freidberg is the recipient of the Edna Aizenberg Award 2025 for her project: Memorial Builders: Early Commemoration of the Khurbn/Holocaust in Mexico, 1941-1948.Â
We want to thank the evaluating committee: Daniela Gleizer, Santiago Slabodsky, and Estelle Tarica for their hard work reviewing the many excellent proposals submitted this year.Â
Memorial Builders: Early Commemoration of the Khurbn/Holocaust in Mexico, 1941-1948 offers the opportunity to analyze the early memorialization efforts of this community and to understand the political factors behind the emergence of a narrative that suggested there was only silence. The focus of this research project is the Yiddish press and the archive of Mexico’s main Jewish school, since many of the early memorialization events only left traces in these spaces. Thus, attention to these sources will bring to light previously unheard voices. This project demonstrates the applicant’s excellent familiarity with current, developing research areas, both within and beyond Jewish Studies and Mexican and Latin American Studies, and shows an organized, realistic, and efficient approach to the research questions posed.
Congratulations Tamara! We are looking forward to the finished project.
