Obituaries

by Ruth Behar It is with a broken heart that I sit down to write this obituary to remember and praise my friend, the renowned poet and writer Marjorie Agosín. Just a few months ago we were speaking on the phone about waiting to retire until turning 70, and she said that afterward she didn’t […]

Judith Laikin Elkin, Founding President of LAJSA The entire LAJSA community was greatly saddened to hear of the death in January 2024 of Judith Laikin Elkin, the Founding President who created the association and served as president from its establishment in 1982 until 1995. We would like to extend our condolences to her family, especially her

Dara E. Goldman, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, passed away unexpectedly on May 13, 2022 at the age of 51. She was preparing to travel to a gathering of the American Jewish Historical

LAJSA Remembers David William Foster David William Foster, the distinguished and collegial scholar who served as President of LAJSA from 2006-2009, died on June 24, 2020 in Phoenix.  At the time of his death, he was Regents’ Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, where he had taught since 1966,

We are pained and sorrowed over the passing of our friend and colleague Edna Aizenberg, z”l. Edna was one of the original members of LAJSA when it was formed in 1982 and since that time was a stalwart supporter of and contributor to the mission of the association. Together with Raanan Rein, she was the