LAJSA Book Awards
Stephen Silverstein, The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive (Vanderbilt UP, 2016)
Honorable Mention: Edna Aizenberg, On the Edge of the Holocaust: The Shoah in Latin American Literature and Culture (UP New England, 2015)
Honorable Mention: Annette Levine and Natasha Zaretsky, eds. Landscapes of Memory and Impunity: The Aftermath of the Amia Bombing in Jewish Argentina (Brill 2015)
Best Doctoral Dissertation
Mariusz Kalczewiak (Tel Aviv University): “Jewish Polacos, Argentina and the Yiddishland”
Honorable Mention: Yitzhak Lewis (Columbia University): “Writing the Margin: Rabbi Nachman of Braslav, Jorge Luis Borges and the Question of Jewish Writing”
