Dissertations & Theses

Doctorate

Completed

2026

Anna Stanislavovna Vilner
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Director: Naomi Lindstrom
Russophone Drama in 20th Century Argentina (1930-1960): Translations, Paratexts, and Canon Formation (includes material on Jewish Argentines in the publishing industry)

Hernán Dobry
Universidad Torcuato di Tella
PhD in History
Director: Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University)
Benjamín Rattenbach: Un judío oculto en la cima del poder militar en la Argentina

Adriana Hernández Gómez de Molina
Universidad de La Habana, Cuba.
Ph.D. in History
Director: C. Sergio Guerra Villavoy
Los hebreos en Cuba en Almanaque Hebreo Vida Habanera: 1943- 1960

Mark LaRubio
Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Literature
Directors: Lee Bebout, Christine Holbo, and Brian Goodman
El Último Sefaradí de Amerika: Counter-Genealogies of Jewishness, Latinidad, and Queerness in Chicanx Literature

2025

Ryuki (Orihito) Nagatsuka
The University of Tokyo
Doctorate in Area Studies
Directors: Azusa Tanase, Taro Tsurumi, Hitoshi Takahashi, Ayako Saito, Yoshiaki Mihara
The Homeland of the 'Voices' and Polymorphic Diasporas: The Literary Creations of Sephardic Jews

Tamara Gleason Freidberg
University College London (UCL)
PhD in Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Director: Shirli Gilber (UCL)
Memorial Builders: Responses and reactions to the Khurbn (Holocaust) in Mexico, 1941-1948

Jackson Monzón
University of Maryland
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Saúl Sosnowski (University of Maryland)
Hacia un judaísmo heterodoxo: Re/escrituras de Esther Seligson y Myriam Moscona

Diego Martínez Serrano
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico)
Doctor en Estudios Arqueológicos
Director: Patricia Fournier García
Arqueología histórica del judaísmo novohispano, siglo XVII

2024

Elaine Fitz Gibbon
Harvard University
Doctorate in Historical Musicology
Director(s): Anne C. Shreffler and Carol J. Oja
Artists/Historians: Mauricio Kagel, Musiktheater and the Mobility of (Music) History

Javier Leibiusky
INALCO University in Paris
Ph.D. in Languages, Cultures, and Civilizations of the World
Director: Prof. Marie-Christine Bornes Varol
El comentario de Pirke Avot en el Meam Loez de Isaac Magriso (Constantinopla 1753) - Estudio de la lengua y el comentario

Juan Manuel Férez Gil 
Universidad Alberto Hurtado de Chile 
Doctorado en Sociología 
Directora: Oriana Bernasconi (Pontífica Universidad Católica de Chile)
Diasporicidad y pertenencia: conexiones y desconexiones diaspóricas hacia homeland(s): El caso de los judíos sefaradíes chilenos 

Aiala Wengrowicz Feller
University of Haifa
Ph.D. in Jewish History
Directors: Marcos Silber (Haifa University) and Rosalie Sitman (Tel Aviv University)
The Baroquization of Memory’: The Use of Photographic Images in the Process of Memory Construction of Traumatic Historical Events

Rachel G. Mohl
Rice University
PhD in Art History
Directors: Fabiola López Duran (Rice University), Gordon Hughes (Rice University), Luis Duno-Gottberg (Rice University)
Politics at Play: The Jewish Community and the Development of the Visual Arts in Buenos Aires, 1943-1952

Igal Aisenberg
Tel Aviv University
PhD in History
Director: Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University)
Otherness and Industrial Entrepreneurship:  Jewish Immigrants, Nationalism, ISI and Finance Sourcing in Argentina, 1930-1960s.

2023

Karem Lissette Delgado
University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Emphasis
Director: Jacobo Sefamí
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Carvajal Women and Other Crypto Jews In Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Mexico


Rachelle Grossman
Harvard University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Director: Mariano Siskind, Co-Director: Saul Zaritt
Cultural Capitals: Postwar Yiddish Publishing between Warsaw and Buenos Aires

2021

Guillermo Glujovsky 
Université du Québec à Montréal
Doctorado en Sociología
Director: Víctor Armony
Los detenidos-desaparecidos pertenecientes a la comunidad judía durante la Dictadura argentina. De 1976 - 1983   

Ivonne Lerner
Tel Aviv University
Ph.D. in Education
Director: Prof. Michal Tannenbaum
Language Attrition Among Immigrant Teachers of Spanish (A Study of Argentine Immigrants to Israel)

Maxwell Ezra Greenberg
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD in Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Director: Robert Chao Romero (UCLA)
The New Jewish Pioneer: Capital, Land, and Continuity on the US-Mexico Border.

Gustavo Guzmán
Tel Aviv University
PhD in History
Director: Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University)
From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen: Changes and Continuities in Chilean Right-Wing Attitudes toward Jews

2020

Alberto Chester
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Doctorado en Historia
Director: Enrique Peruzzotti.
La ciudadanía cuestionada: las asociaciones de familiares de víctimas del atentado a la AMIA     

Paula Ansaldo
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Ph.D. in History and Art Theory
Director: Jorge Dubatti. Co-director: Alejandro Dujovne
Teatro judío en Buenos Aires (1930-1966): cartografía, desarrollo y productividad en el campo teatral argentino

Ricardo Garro
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
Ph.D. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
A escrita como túmulo e memorial em Bernardo Kucinski

Adrián Krupnik
Tel Aviv University
Ph.D. in History
Director: Raanan Rein
Between Two Homelands: Jewish-Argentine Return Migration from Israel, 1948-2006

Joanna M. Moszczynska 
Freie Universität Berlin
Doctorado en Literaturas y Culturas Latinoamericanas
Directora: Susanne Klengel
A memória da Destruição na escrita judaico-brasileira depois de 1985. Por uma literatura pós-Holocausto emergente no Brasil

2019

Michael Rom
Yale University
Ph.D. in History
Directors: Gil Joseph and Stuart Schwartz
Brazilian Belonging: Jewish Politics in Cold War Brazil, 1930-1985

Sara da Rocha Valente
The University of Texas at Dallas
Ph.D. in Humanities/History of Ideas
Director: Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
Holocaust Aftermath and Memory in Brazil

Mitsuko Kawabata
Indiana University
PhD in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Director: Judah M. Cohen (Indiana University)
The Politics of Musical Hybridity in Buenos Aires: Jewish Music, Youth Culture, and Cultural Policy

Silvio Gryc
University of Haifa
PhD in Israel Studies
Director: Dr. Gur Alroey (University of Haifa)
Between Agriculture and Nationality: The Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Argentina Between 1925 and 1935

2018

Katya Queiroz Alencar
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais
Ph.D. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Pelas águas da Medusa: ex-tradição, escrita e vanguarda em Água Viva, de Clarice Lispector

Charlotte Gartenberg
Graduate Center, CUNY
Ph.D. in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies
Director: Magdalena Perkowska
Haunted Stories, Haunted Selves: Ghosts in Latin American Jewish Literature

Mariusz Kałczewiak
Tel Aviv University
Ph.D. in History
Directors: Raanan Rein, Peter Haslinger
Jewish polacos, Argentina and the Yiddishland: Negotiatiing Transnational Identitites, 1914-1939

Jacqueline Laznow
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. in Folklore and Folk Culture
Director: Hagar Salamon
Strategies, Tactics and Folkloristic Aspects of Tradition Passing among Argentinian Jewish Women Now Living in Israel

Angel Enrique Martínez Ruiz
Tel Aviv University
Ph.D. in History
Directors: Raanan Rein and Germán Mejía Pavony
Urban Growth, Real Estate and Jewish Immigrants: Leo Siegfried Kopp’s Real Estate Investments as a Strategy of Social Integration to Bogotá, Colombia, 1889-1933

Raelene Camille Wyse
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Director: Naomi Lindstrom
Sounding Jewish Multilingualism: An Aesthetics of Language Survival in Latin American and US Latinx Cultural Production

Lourdes Parra Lazcano
University of Leeds
PhD in Spanish and Portuguese
Directors: Thea Pitman (University of Leeds) and Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)
Transcultural Performativities: Travel  Literatures by Mexican Women Writers
(Chapter on Esther Seligson and Myriam Moscona)

Leopoldo Peñas
University of California, Irvine
PhD in Spanish
Director: Viviane Mahieux (UC Irvine)
The Art of Animating Images

2017

Katharine Gillian Trostel
University of California Santa Cruz
Ph.D. in Literature
Director: Norma Klahn
Memoryscapes: Women Chart the Post-Trauma City in 20th- and 21st-Century Latin America

Javier Barroso
University of Kansas
PhD in Spanish and Portuguese
Director: Verónica Garibotto (University of Kansas)
The Representation of Nazism and World War II in the Literature of Argentina and Mexico

2016

Jessica Kirstein
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. in History
Directors: Florencia Mallon, Francisco A. Scarano, Steve J. Stern
Making Their Place: Jews, Immigrants, and the Politics of Alternative Workers’ Citizenship in Argentina, 1900-1922

Yitzhak Lewis
Columbia University
Ph.D. from Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Supervisor: Dan Miron
Writing the Margin: Rabbi Nachman of Braslav, Jorge Luis Borges and the Question of Jewish Writing

Stephanie Anne Malak
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures
Directors: Naomi Lindstrom and César A. Salgado
Between Immanence and Transcendence: Poetic Reason and Mysticality in Christian and Jewish Neo-Mystics [includes chapters on Jacobo Fijman and Clarice Lispector]

Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. in History
Directors: Florencia Mallon, Francisco A. Scarano, Steve J. Stern
Comunistas judíos en Chile: Experiencia y memoria en las historias de vida de Dora Guralnik y Carlos Berger, 1930-1990

Romina Yalonetzky
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Doctorado en Sociología
Directora: Catalina Romero
"Nosotros" y "los otros": peruanos judíos en la ciudad de Lima (1944-2014)

Ariel Svarch
Emory University
PhD in History
Director: Jeffrey Lesser (Emory University)
Four Jews, Five Identities: Representation, Popular Culture, and Language Politics in the Making of Jewish-Argentines (Buenos Aires, 1930-1945)

Joanna Meadvin
University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD in Literature
Director: Susan Gillman (UC Santa Cruz)
Making America / Makhn Amerike / Haciendo la América: Jewish Immigrants Write the Americas (1880-1990)

2015

Daniela Goldfine
University of Minnesota
Ph.D. in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
Minor in Feminist and Critical Sexuality Studies
Directors: Amy Kaminsky and Ana Forcinito
Stories of Memory / Memory in Stories: Remembrance and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Argentine Cultural Production

José Goni
Graduate Center, CUNY
Ph.D. in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages
Co-Directors: Malva E. Filer, Magdalena Perkowska
El transnacionalismo y la identidad judía en la obra de Isaac Goldemberg

Mirna Vohnsen
University College Dublin, Ireland
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Jeremy Squires
Rethinking Argentinidad: Portrayals of Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema

Lillian Marie Wohl
Univeristy of Chicago
Ph.D. in Music
Director: Philip V. Bohlman
The Musical Labors of Memory: Jewish Musical Performance in Buenos Aires

Zhava Litvac Glaser
The City University of New York
Directors: Dagmar Herzog, (CUNY Graduate Center), Helena Rosenblatt (CUNY Graduate Center)
PhD in History
Refugees and Relief: The American Joint Distribution Committee and European Jews in Cuba and Shanghai, 1938-1943

Edith Marsiglia
Arizona State University
Director: Emil Volek (Arizona State University)
PhD in Spanish
Expresiones culturales transnacionales de la Diáspora: los judíos italianos en Argentina y Uruguay durante y después del período fascista

2014

Iván Cherjovsky
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Doctorado en Antropología
Directora: María Bjerg
De la Rusia zarista la pampa argentina: memoria e identidad en las colonias de la Jewish Colonization Association

Aviad Moreno
Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies (at the Department of Middle East Studies)
Ben Gurion University
Director: Relli Schechter
Ethnicity in Motion: Social Networks in the Emigration of Jews from Northern Morocco to Venezuela and Israel, 1860-2010

Edith Susana Leni
Stanford University
Director: Joan Resina (Stanford)
PhD in Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Autobiographical Narratives of Concentration Camps: A Transatlantic Approach to Concentrationary Policies and Trajectories

2013

Devi Mays
Ph.D. in History
Indiana University
Directors: Matthias Lehmann and Jeffrey Veidlinger
Transplanting Cosmopolitans: The Migrations of Sephardic Jews to Mexico, 1900-1934

2012

Esther Charabati Nehmad
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ph.D in Pedagogy
Director: Liz Hamui Sutton
La transmisión del legado del os jeoalepinos en México

Evelyn Dean-Olmsted
Indiana University
Ph.D. in Anthopology
Directors: Daniel Suslak and Richard Bauman
Speaking Shami: Syrian Jewish Mexican Language Practices as Strategies of Integration and Legitimation

Sebastian Klor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. Social History
Directors: G. Alroey and Leonardo Senkman
The Aliyah from Argentina to the State of Israel 1948-1967 (in Hebrew)

Stephen Silverstein
University of Virginia
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Ruth Hill
The Jewish Slave Trader Trope in Abolitionist Discourses of the Caribbean, 1839-1882

Dalia Wassner
Northeastern University
Ph.D. in History
Directors: Stephen A. Sadow and Heather Streets-Salter
Argentine Intellectuals as Harbingers of Modernity: The Democratization Projects of Marcos Aguinis

Beatrice Dora Gurwitz
University of California, Berkeley
Directors: Margaret Chowning (UC Berkeley), Mark A. Healey (University of Connecticut)
PhD in History
From the New World to the Third World: Generation, Politics, and the Making of Argentine Jewish Ethnicity

Mir Hayim Yarfitz
University of California, Los Angeles
Director: José C. Moya (Barnard College)
PhD in History
Polacos, White Slaves, and Stille Chuppahs: Organized Prostitution and the Jews of Buenos Aires, 1890-1939

Selene de Souza Dias
University of Arizona
Director: Melissa Fitch (University of Arizona)
PhD in Spanish
As representações do corpo feminino na literatura e nas artes visuais judaicas da América Latina

Deborah Anne Bensadon
University of Pittsburgh
Director: Juan Duchesne-Winter (Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh)
PhD in Hispanic and Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Modernity and Crisis: The Writing of ‘The Jew’ in Twentieth Century Trans-Atlantic Literature

2011

Deby Babis
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology
Director: Luis Roniger
Isolating and Integrating?! The Dynamics of a voluntary Organization in the Immigration Process  - The Case of the Latin American Olim Association in Israel (in Hebrew)  

Patricia Graciela Flier
Universidad Nacional de la Plata
Doctorado en Historia
Director: Waldo Ansaldi
Co-Director: Fernando Barba
Historia y memoria de la colonización judía agraria en en Entre Ríos: La experiencia de Colonia Clara, 1890-1950

Emmanuel Kahan
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Doctorado en Historia
Directores: Daniel Lvovich and Andrés Bisso
Entre la aceptación y el distanciamiento: actitudes sociales, posicionamientos y memoria de la experiencia judía durante la última dictadura militar (1973-2007)

Anna Katsnelson
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Director: Seth L. Wolitz
Ethnic Passing Across the Jewish Literary Diaspora (contains two chapters on Clarice Lispector)

Paulette Kershenovich Sefchovich
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. in Contemporary Jewry
Directors: Sergio DellaPergola and Hanna Herzog
The Syrian-Jewish Community in Mexico City in a Comparative Context

Mercedes Saborido
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Doctorado, Historia Contemporánea
Director: Antonio Niño Rodríguez
Un viraje inducido: el Partido Comunista de la Argentina y el Conflicto de Medio Oriente (1948-1973)

2010

Alejandro Dujovne
Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento, Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES)
Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales
Director: Gustavo Sorá
Co-Director: Ricardo Forster
Impresiones del judaísmo: una sociología histórica de la producción y circulación transnacional del libro en el colectivo social judío de Buenos Aires, 1919-1979

Jamie Agins Lincow
Temple University
Ph.D in Spanish
Director: Hortensia R. Morell
La distopía en las novelas de Ana María Shua

Alejandro Ivan Paz
University of Chicago
Ph.D. in Anthropology and Linguistics
Director: Michael Silverstein
Discursive Transformation: The Emergence of Ethnolinguistic Identity among Latin American Labor Migrants and Their Chldren in Israel

Damián Setton
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Doctorado en Ciencias Sociles
Director: Fortunato Mallimaci
Judíos ortodoxos y judíos no afiliados en procesos de interacción. El caso de Jabad Lubavitch de Argentina

Ariel Noyjovich
University of Haifa
Director: Marcos Silber (University of Haifa)
PhD in Jewish History
Alienated at Home: State Terror and Zionist Youth Movements in Argentina in the 1970s.

John Dizgun
Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey
Director: Samuel L. Bailey (Emeritus, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey)
PhD in History
Immigrants of a different religion: Jewish Argentines and the Boundaries of Argentinidad, 1919-2009

2009

Bruno Carvalho
Harvard University
Director: Nicolau Sevcenko
New City in a New World: Literary Spaces of an Afro-Jewish Brazilian Neighborhood

Michelle Amy Cohen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. in Anthropology
Co-directors: Marisol de la Cadena, Dorothy Holland
Delving into the Ruins: The AMIA Bombing, the Struggle for Justice, and the Negotiation of Jewish Belonging in Argentina

Marquesa Macadar
Indiana University, Bloomington
Ph.D. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Director:  Richard Baumann
Sephardic Diaspora:  A Case Study in Latin America

Santiago Slabodsky
University of Toronto
Ph.D., Center for the Study of Religion and Center for Jewish Studies
Director: Robert Gibbs
Emmanuel Levinas' Barbarisms: Adventures of Eastern Talmudic Readings
Traveling South

2008

Jessica Bekerman Targ
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, orientación Sociología
Directoras: Judit Bokser Misses- Liwerant y Gilda Waldman
Shoa: Memoria y testimonio, el fracaso de la escritura

Susana Brauner
Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires)
Doctorado en Ciencia Política
Director: Jorge Soneira
Los judíos de origen sirio en Argentina: identidad, liderazgo, participación política y alineamientos en el conflicto árabe-israelí, 1900-2000

Karen Ann Faulk
University of Michigan
Ph.D. in Anthropology
Director: Jennifer Robertson
The Walls of the Labyrinth: Impunity, Corruption, and the Limits of Politics in Contemporary Argentina
(includes study of groups of family members of AMIA bombing victims)

Daniela Susana Segre Guertzenstein
Universidade de São Paulo
Doutorado, Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
Presidente: Marta Francisca Topel
O uso do computador e da internet pela comunidade judaica ortodoxa paulistana

James A. Hussar
University of Notre Dame
Director: María Rosa Olivera-Williams
Cycling through the Pampas: Fictionalized Accounts of Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Argentina and Brazil

Nayibe I. Bermudez
University of Kansas
PhD in Spanish
Director: Danny J. Anderson
Sujetos (trans)nacionales: La negociación de la etnia, el género sexual y la clase social en cine y literatura de findes de siglo XX (Chapter on Rosa Nissan and Guita Schyfter)

2007

Daniela Gleizer Salzman
Colegio de México
Doctorado en Historia
Asesora: Clara E. Lida
Exiliados incómodos; México y los refugiados judíos del nazismo (1933-1945)

Mollie Lewis
Emory University
Ph.D in History
Director: Jeffrey Lesser
Con Men, Cooks, and Cinema Kings: Popular Culture and Jewish Identities in Buenos Aires, 1905-1930

Patricia Nuriel
Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Emil Volek
Memoria e identidad en la novela judía latinoamericana contemporánea

Amalia Ran
University of Maryland
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Saúl Sosnowski
Hechos de orillas: Nuevas expresiones de la identidad judeo-argentina contemporánea

Ana Schaposchnik
University of Wisconsin
Ph.D. in History
Director: Steve J. Stern
Under the Eyes of the Inquisition: Crypto-Jews in the Ibero-American World (Peru, 1600s)

Clair Thora Solomon
Yale University
Ph.D. in Spanish
Fictions of the 'Bad Life': The Discourse of Prostitution in Argentine Literature and Culture(contains material on Jewish prostitutes in literature and culture)

2006

Daniel Fainstein Jelin
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, orientación Sociología
Directora: Judit Bokser Misses-Liwerant
Profecía, modernidad y liberación: la emergencia de la religión pública en el pensamiento judío contemporáneo

David Hurovitz
Tel Aviv University
Ph.D. in History
Directors: Dina Porat and Raanan Rein
The Jewish Community and Aliyah From Argentina 1962 – 1973 (in Hebrew)

Guadalupe Pérez-Anzaldo
University of California, Irvine
Director: Lucía Guerra-Cunningham
Diáspora y memoria: Las escritoras judío-mexicanas y las identidades múltiples

Frida Staropolsky Nowalsky
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, orientación Sociología
Directora: Judit Bokser Misses-Liwerant
La educación en el proceso de la construcción de las identidades colectivas: el caso de la comunidad judía de México desde la percepción de las maestras

2005

Debora Cordeiro-Sipin
Florida State University
Director: Peggy Sharpe
Issues of Identity in the Narratives of Jewish Authors from the Southern Cone: Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay

Deborah Batia Roitman Meschiani
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Doctorado en sociología
Directora: Judit Bokser Misses-Liwerant
Identidad colectiva y consenso cultural: el grupo judío en la ciudad de México a principios del siglo XXI, un estudio de caso

2004

Adriana M. Brodsky
Duke University
Ph.D. in History
Director: Daniel James
The Contours of Identity: Sephardic Jews and the Construction of Jewish Communities in Argentina, 1880 to the Present

Erin Graff Zivin
New York University
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Sylvia Molloy
The Wandering Signifier: Rhetorical Functions of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary

Beatriz Loyola
University of Colorado at Boulder
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Asunción Horno-Delgado
Género, etnicidad y nación en la narrativa judío-mexicana de Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Rosa Nissán y Sara Levi Calderón

Marcela Pardés
Temple University
Director: Hortensia R. Morell
The Travel Motif in Contemporary Latin American Jewish Literature

Laura Suzanne Weingarten
University of Maryland Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Saúl Sosnowski
Homelands in Exile: Three Contemporary Latin American Jewish Women Writers Create a Literary Homeland

2003

Alejandro Meter
University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Director: Mabel Moraña
Recovered Narratives: Collective Memory in Contemporary Argentine Jewish Fiction

Josefina Infante-Voelker
City University of New York
PhD in Spanish
Las novelas de Angelina Muñiz: Obras de un exilio heredado

2002

Lawrence D. Bell
Ohio State University
Directors: Kenneth J. Andrien, Donna Guy
The Jews and Perón: Communal Politics and National Identity in Peronist Argentina, 1946-1955

Ariana Huberman
New York University
Ph.D. in Latin American Literature
Director: Silvia Rosman
Translating the National Glossary: Identity and Culture in Southern Cone Rural Narrative
(includes chapter on Alberto Gerchunoff)

Misha Klein
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Anthropology
Advisor: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Braided Lives: On Being Jewish and Brazilian in São Paulo

2001

Silvia Berger
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics
Director: Angel Loureiro.
Cuatro textos autobiográficos latinoamericanos. Yo, historia e identidad nacional en A. Gerchunoff, M. Agosín, A. Bioy Casares y O. Soriano

Lyslei de Souza Nascimento
Doutorado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil
Director: Wander Melo Miranda.
Vestígios da tradição Judaica: Borges e outros rabinos

1999

Lydia Mariana Gil
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures
Directors: Naomi Lindstrom and Seth L. Wolitz
From the Book to the Desert: An Examination of Twentieth-Century Jewish Writing in Spanish America

Rosa Perla Raicher
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Haim Avni
Uruguayan Jewry: Jewish National Identity and Assimilationist Tendencies in its Historical Development (in Hebrew)

Shari Seider
Stanford University Ph.D.
Looking Forward to the Past: The Ultra-Orthodox Community of Buenos Aires, Argentina

1998

Viviana Fridman
Université du Québec à Montréal
Ph.D. in Sociology
Director: Régine Robin
Entre l'assimilation et l'affirmation de la différence: l'identité juive-argentine à travers la littérature et les écrivains

1997

Alan F. Benjamin
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. in Anthropology
Director: Sue Estroff
Ethnic Identities and Classifying Practices among Jews of Curaçao

1995

Darrell B. Lockhart
Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: David William Foster
Argentine-Jewish Essayists: Writing on Both Sides of the Hyphen

1994

Graciela Ben Dror
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Haim Avni
The Catholic Church in Argentina and the Jewish People during the Holocaust Era, 1933-1945 (in Hebrew)

Luis Nazario
Universidade de São Paulo
Doutorado em História Social
Directora: Anita Novinsky
Imaginários da destruição: O papel do cinema na preparação do Holocausto

1993

Margalit Bejarano
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. in Contemporary Jewry
Directors: Haim Avni and Fred Bronner
The Jewish Community of Cuba, 1898-1939, Communal Consolidation and Trends of Integration under the Impact of Changes in World Jewry and Cuban Society (in Hebrew)

Yosi (Jorge /Yosef) Goldstein
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Haim Avni
The Influence of the State of Israel and the Jewish Agency on Community Life in Argentina and Uruguay between 1948-1958 (in Hebrew)

Sonia Bloomfield Ramagem
The Catholic University of America
Ph.D. in Anthropology
Advisor: David Guillet
The Moral Economy of a Kibbutz in a Time of Crisis
(about Kibbutz Mefalsim, the first Latin American kibbutz)

1989

Efraim Zadoff
Tel Aviv University
Doctor of Education
Directors: Yizhak Kashti and Dina Porat
Jewish Education in Buenos Aires, 1935-1957 (in Hebrew)

1991

Judit Bokser Misses
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas
Directora: Eugenia Meyer
El Movimiento Nacional Judío. El sionismo en México 1922 -1947

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Doctorado en Filosofía y Letras
Director: Arturo Souto
Fuentes y derivaciones de la Cábala hispanohebrea

1989

Jeffrey H. Lesser
New York University
Ph.D. in History
Director: Warren Dean
Pawns of the Powerful: Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1904-1945

Diana I. Pak-Artsi
Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: David William Foster
Aportes de cuatro autores judíos a la literatura argentina: Gerchunoff, Espinoza, Verbitsky y Eichelbaum

1985

Olga Elaine Rojer
University of Maryland
The German-Speaking Exile in Argentina, 1933-1945: A Historical and Literary Introduction

1984

Ethel V. Kominsky
Ph.D. in History
Universidade de São Paulo
Rolandia a terra prometida: judeus refugiados do nazismo no norte do Paraná

Silvia Schenkolewski (Tractinsky)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. in History
Principal Director: Jacob Katz
Co-Director: Haim Avni.
The Zionist Movement and the Zionist Parties in Argentina (1935-1943) (in Hebrew)

Gilda S. Szklo
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Alegoria e tradição: o universo de judaísmo de Moacyr Scliar

Maria Augusta Toledo
Universidade de São Paulo
O judeu no teatro brasileiro: personagem e máscara

1981

Marjorie Salgado Gordon
Ph.D. in Spanish University of Maryland
Director: Saúl Sosnowski
Alberto Gerchunoff and Samuel Eichelbaum: Two Literary Reflections on Judeo-Argentinidad

1980

Josef Davis Eichen
Ph.D. in History
Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, R.D.
Sosúa: Una colonia hebrea en la República Dominicana

Stanley Mark Hordes
Ph.D. in History
Tulane University
The Crypto-Jewish Community of New Spain, 1620-1649: A Collective Biography

Silvia Jan Zveibil
Universidade de São Paulo
Identidade étnica judaica: caracterização e processo de constituição

1978

Nora Glickman
New York University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Directors: Wilson Martins and Helene Anderson
The Jewish Image in Argentine and Brazilian Literature

1976

Judith Laikin Elkin
University of Michigan
Ph.D. in History
Director: Charles Gibson
History of the Jews of Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Arnold Spitta
University of Frankfurt
Paul Zech im Sudamerikanischen Exil, 1933-1946: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Deutschen Emigration in Argentina

1972

Sonia A. Siqueira
Universidade de São Paulo
A inquisicão portuguesa e a sociedade colonial: a ação do Santo Ofício na Bahia e em Pernambuco na época das visitações

Master's Theses

Completed

2025

Diego Alejandro Battista
Universidad Nacional de las Artes
Maestría en Musicología
Directores: Silvia Glocer, Oscar Olmello
Panorama actual de la música klezmer en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: sus nuevas expresiones híbridas

2024

Ernesto Mifano Honigsberg
Universidade de São Paulo
MA in Foreign Languages and Translation
Director: Prof. Suzana Chwarts 
Rosa Porozovska e Ernest Hönigsberg: histórias de vida e memórias no arquivo de um casal de músicos ídiche

Shahar Viso
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
MA in Jewish Studies
Director: Prof. Stephan Rohrbacher
(Re)making Memory–The Making of Raquel Liberman’s Mythos

Angelica da Silva Pinheiro
Universidade Federal do Pará
MA in Languages and Knowledge in the Amazon
Director: Prof. Alessandra F. Conde da Silva
Filhas de Judá na Amazônia: lamentos de judias prostituídas nas obras de Marcos Serruya, Cabelos de fogo, Ilko Minev, A filha dos rios e na peça teatral de Márcio Souza, "Eretz Amazônia".

2023

Diego Martínez Serrano
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Posgrado en Estudios Arqueológicos
Director de tesis: Doctora Patricia Fournier García
Baños de plata. Arqueología histórica del judaísmo novohispano

Diplomado (Post-Graduate Certificate Program)
Instituto Cubano de Antropología
Diplomado en Antropología
Consultantes: Patricia Motola, Ramón Cabrera Salort, Yaniela Morales Cortina, Suset González Roditi
El shabat virtual de la kitá Pardés Alef. Una experiencia desde la etnografia educativa

2022

Karen Ayalon-Brustein
University of Haifa
M.A. in Jewish History
Co-Directors: Prof. Gur Alroey and Dr. Sebastian Klor
Eat. Immigrate. Eat.: Foodways as reflecting cultural practices among Brazilian Jews

Igal Aisenberg
Tel Aviv University
MA in History
Director: Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University)
The Contribution of Jewish Immigrants-Entrepreneurs to the Development of the Textile, Machinery and Metal Industries in Argentina, 1930-1945.

Igal Aisenberg
Tel Aviv University
MA in History
Director: Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University)
The Contribution of Jewish Immigrants-Entrepreneurs to the Development of the Textile, Machinery and Metal Industries in Argentina, 1930-1945.

2021

Adriana Abuhab Bialski
Universidade de São Paulo
M.A. in Literature and Translation
Director: Nancy Rozenchan
Museu Judaico de São Paulo: a criação de um diálogo entre comunidade e sociedade

2019

Michele Migliori
ELTE University
MA in Ethnic and Minority Policy
Director: Prof. Ildikó Barna
The Forgotten Emigration. European Jewish Refugees in Ecuador and Colombia (1933-1945)

Suzanne D. Skinner
Utah State University
MA in History
Director: Susan Cogan (Utah State)
Crypto-Jewish Identity in the Inquisition of Mexico City

Angélica Gómez Rosas and Mijael Jacobson
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
MA in Infancia y Cultura
Director: Natalia Pinilla (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas)
La infancia judía en Colombia: sus miradas y experiencias en la comunidad del Centro de Estudios Beit Hilel de Bogotá

Ricardo Pérez
Universidad de Costa Rica
M.A. in History
Director: Werner Mackenbach
La comunidad judía y el judaísmo en Costa Rica, de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a la formación del Estado de Israel: interacción, discursos y representaciones (1939-1948)

2017

Aiala Wengrowicz Feller
University of Haifa
MA in History
Directors: Dr. Marcus Zilber (University of Haifa), Dr. Rosalie Sitman (Tel Aviv University)
The Role of Visual Images and Photographic Family Portraits in the Process of Memry Construction of Traumatic Events: Three Case Studies: Holocaust Memory, Memory of the Victims of State Terrorism in Argentina (1976-1983) and Memory of the Victims of the Attck on the Jewish Community Building AMIA in Buenos Aires (1994)

2016

Omer Lachman
University of Haifa
MA in Jewish History
Director: Gur Alroey (University of Haifa)

Joanna Meadvin
University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD in Literature
Director: Susan Gillman (UC Santa Cruz)
Making America / Makhn Amerike / Haciendo la América: Jewish Immigrants Write the Americas (1880-1990)

Anthony August Hoffman
University of California, Los Angeles
MA in Latin American Studies
Director: Stephen Andrew Bell (University of California, Los Angeles)
Panic Emigration: Jewish Agricultural Settlements in Bolivia and the Dominican Republic
The Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe to Mexico, 1900-1939: A Demographic Profile

André de Souza Pinto
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
M.A. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Genealogias e histórias de antepassados em Galileia, de Ronaldo Correia de Brito

Késia Rodrigues Oliveira
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
M.A. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Sob o signo de Judas: reescritas literárias da traição

Luis Gabriel Montoya
Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
MA in History
Director: Prof. Germàn Mejìa Pavony
Política inmigratoria judía durante el gobierno de Eduardo Santos Montejo (1938-1942) Debate en torno a la receptividad entre los poderes ejecutivo y legislativo en Colombia

2014

Raelene Camille Wyse
University of Texas at Austin
M.A. in Comparative Literature
Director: Naomi Lindstrom
Exploring Jewish Forms of Speaking to God: The Use of Apostrophe in David Rosenmann-Taub's Cortejo y Epicinio

2013

Gina Malagold
M.A. Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013
Director: Dr. Steve Stern
El Conflicto de la Comunidad Judía durante la “Guerra Sucia” 

Pola Salmún Smeke
Maestría en Sociología
Universidad Iberoamericana
Directora: María Ileana García Gossio
Modelo de las dinámicas de cambios en los roles sexo-genéricos de las mujeres en comunidades tradicionales. Las mujeres judías en Mexico.
De las libertades y decisiones en la comunidad Monte Sinai

Mardoqueo Staropolsky
Maestría en Estudios Judaicos
Universidad Hebraica de México
Directora; Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Presencia de judíos en el exilio español en México

2011

Maria Isabel de Andrade
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
M.A. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Lilith: um monstro feminino em Jorge Luis Borges, Dante Gabriel Rossetti e Primo Levi

Valeria Cababie-Schindler
Florida International University
M.A. in Religious Studies
Director: Oren Stier
Imah on the Bimah: Gender and the Roles of Latin American Conservative Congregational Rabinas
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/353

Simone Guimarães Matheus
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
M.A. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Sagradas apropriações: A mulher que escreveu a Bíblia, de Moacyr Scliar

Glauber Pereira Quintão
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
M.A. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Genealogia literária em A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, de Moacyr Scliar

2010

Shirley Aparecida Gomide Cabra
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
M.A. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Pragas, risos e lentilhas: Moacyr Scliar, Bíblia e Literatura

2009

Edgar A. Morales-Garcia
Graduate Center, CUNY
M.A. in Liberal Arts
Director: Nora Glickman
Personal, Social, Gender and Jewish Cultural Identiy in the Novels of Isaac Chocrón

Monica Thuney
The Ohio State University
B.A. Senior Honors Thesis in Latin American Literature
Director: Ulises Zevallos-Aguilar
The Emergence of a Jewish Cultural Archipelago in Isaac Goldemberg’s The Fragmented Life of don Jacobo Lerner

2008

Luciara Lourdes Silva de Assis
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
M.A. in Literature
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Retratos biográficos de Olga Benario Prestes: uma vida escrita

Elizabete Chaves Coelho
Mestrado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil.
Directora: Lyslei de Souza Nascimento
Olhares imigrantes: literatura judaica no Brasil

Leili Davari
M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin
Directors: Faegheh Shirazi and Esther Raizen
The Blood within Her: A Cross-Religion Analysis of Texts and Practice on Female Blood
(features Mexican case study)

Erin Doran
M.A. in History
University of Texas at San Antonio
Director: Kolleen Guy
The Border Between Remembering and Forgetting: El Paso, Texas, and the Holocaust

Abby Suzanne Gondek
M.A. in Women's Studies
San Diego State University
Director: Susan Cayleff
Afro-Brazilian Jewish Women: Female Centaurs Transgressing the Borderlands

Jessica Kirsten
University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. in Latin American History
Supervisors: Florencia E. Mallon and Steven J. Stern
What an Argentine is Not: Jews, Political Participation and the Making of Argentine Nationality and Citizenship, 1895-1919

Valeria Navarro Rosenblatt
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Magíster en Estudios Internacionales
Profesor Guía: Isaac Caro Grinspun
Comunidad judía en Chile y Argentina durante los regímenes militares 1973-1990/ 1976-1983: dirigencia y derechos humanos

Fanny Ran
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Sergio Della Pergola
Correntinos en Israel: inmigracion y absorcion de inmigrantes de ciudades perifericas y secundarias (in Hebrew)

2007

Cori Di Simone
University of Arizona
Director: Stacie G. Widdifield
The Rabí Yehuda Halevy: The Physical and Conceptual Space of a Sephardic Synagogue in Mexico City

Emmanuel Nicolás Kahan
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Magister en Historia y Memoria
Director y codirector: María Dolores Béjar,. Andrés Bisso
Unos pocos peligros sensatos. La Dirección de Inteligencia de la Policía de la Provincia de Buenos Aires frente a las instituciones judías de la ciudad de La Plata.

Sebastian Klor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Leonardo Senkman
Jewish Immigration to Cordoba (Argentina) (in Hebrew)

Damián Setton
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Maestría en Investigacion en Ciencias Sociales
Director: Fortunato Mallimaci
Co directora: Verónica Giménez Béliveau
Instituciones e identidades en los judaísmos contemporaneos. Estudio sociológico en Jabad Lubavitch

David Telias Bardavid
Universidad ORT Uruguay
Maestría en Educación
La enseñanza de la Shoá en la Red Escolar Judía de Montevideo

2006

Alejandro Dujovne
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Maestría en Antropología
Director: Gustavo Sorá
"Hay que ganar la calle judía" Diáspora y política : Un análisis etnográfico de la izquierda judía en Argentina

Yerach Grinfeld
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Margalit Bejarano
The Young Zionist Socialist Sections in Argentina in the Early 1960s (in Hebrew)

Lia Vainer Schucman
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
Mestrado em Psicologia
Orientadora: Kátia Maheirie
Produção de sentidos e a construção da identidade judaica em Florianópolis

2004

Tamar Siesel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Margalit Bejarano
The German Jewish Settlement in Avigdor (Argentina) during the Shoa Period (in Hebrew)

2002

Haim Portnoi
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Sociology
Director: Luis Roniger
Olim from Cuba 1995-2001: Their Integration in Israel (in Hebrew)

2001

Deby Babis
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Administration of Non-Profit Organizations
Director: Haim Avni
De sinagoga ortodoxa a centro comunitario conservador – Cambios en la organización comunitaria de los judíos en Buenos Aires (in Hebrew)

2000

Emilia Aronovich
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Haim Avni
Three Years in the Public Life of Venezuela Jewry according to Nuevo Mundo Israelita (1973-5)(in Hebrew)

Susana Cerda
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Licenciatura en Letras
Director: Marcela Palma
El mercader de Tudela en Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

Daniel Sterntel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Haim Avni
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina: A History of the Conservative Movement in Argentina

1999

Annette H. Prekker
University of Chicago
M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Director: Patrick O’Connor
Memory and Justice in Buenos Aires in the Aftermath of the AMIA Bombing

1995

Herlinda Dabbah
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Maestría en Letras
Director: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Albores de la literatura escrita por autoras judeo-mexicanas y judeo-norteamericanas

Linda Marcos
Universidad Iberoamericana
Licenciatura en Letras
Director: Gloria Prado
Fuego negro en fuego blanco. Angelina Muñiz-Huberman: una poética de la transmutación

Luis Nazario
Universidade de São Paulo
Mestrado em História Social
Directora: Anita Novinsky
Autos-de-fé como espetáculos de massa

1983

Sonia Bloomfield Ramagem
Universidade Federal de Brasília
Mestrado em Antropologia
Director: Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira
A fénix de Abraão
(about a community of self-identified anusim in Northeastern Brazil)

Undergraduate Theses

2025

Yael Schuller-Podbilewicz
University of Texas at Austin
B.A. in Plan II Honors
Director: Naomi Lindstrom
Steeping Memory: Perspectives on a Family’s Heirloom in the Context of Jewish Material
Culture and Migration (On a Jewish Mexican family)

2023

Mariana Vergara García
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Licenciatura en Lengua y Literaturas Hispánicas
Director: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
Habitar la palabra: poética místico-erótica sefardí en Com/posiciones de Juan Gelman

2010

Joseph Kolker
University of Texas at Austin
B.A. in Plan II Honors and History
Co-Directors: Kamran Ali, Ariel Dultitzky
Jewish Identities and the Politics of Remembering State Violence in Argentina

2009

Cecilia Shenfarber
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Directors: Drs. Gur Alroey (University of Haifa) and Leonard Sankman (Independent Researcher)
BA in History
Migration and Citizenship in Chile, 1890-1926: The Creation and Growth of the Jewish Community

2005

Yana Kushner
University of Texas at Austin
B.A. in Plan II Honors
Director: Naomi Lindstrom
Embracing the Jewish Centaur: Dismantling Brazilian Societal. Restrictions in Scliar’s The Centaur in the Garden