Resources
Teaching Materials: Syllabi and Course Descriptions
(all files listed in this section are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated. PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader software, a free download from Adobe's website.)
Latin American Jewish Culture
- Syllabus: Latin American Jewish Writers (Naomi Lindstrom)
- Syllabus: Tierras de errancia: La literatura judeo-latinoamericana (Amalia Ran)
- Syllabus: Latin American Jewish Culture (David Foster)
- Syllabus: Latin American Jewish Literature (Alejandro Meter)
- Syllabus: Jewish Images in Hispanic and Brazilian Literature and Cinema (Nora Glickman)
- Syllabus: Latin American Film (Nora Glickman)
- NEH Seminar: Jewish Buenos Aires (David Foster)
- Syllabus: Contemporary Hispanic Topics: Imagining Jewishness (Erin Zivin)
- Syllabus: Latin American Jewish Literature (Edna Aizenberg)
- Syllabus: Latin American Jewish Life: Intellectual Currents (Lois Barr)
- Syllabus: La literatura judeolatinoamericana (Stephen Sadow)
- Syllabus: Jewish Literature of Latin America (Lydia Gil Keff)
- Syllabus: Tango and the Jews (Monique Rodrigues Balbuena)
- Syllabus: The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America (Monique Rodrigues Balbuena)
Latin American Jewish History
- Syllabus: Non-Latin Communities in Latin America: Jews and Other Minorities (Margalit Bejarano)
- Syllabus: Jews of the Americas: Comparative Perspectives (Jeffrey Lesser and Eric Goldstein)
- Syllabus: The Minority Experience in Latin America (Jeffrey Lesser)
Sephardic Studies
- Syllabus: Literatura hispanohebrea medieval: poesía, filosofía y misticismo (Angelina Muñiz-Huberman)
- Syllabus: The Literature of the Spain of the Three Cultures (Madeline Sutherland-Meier)
- Syllabus: Sephardic Literature (Monique Rodrigues Balbuena)
- Syllabus: A Cultural History of the Sephardim (Ronnie Perelis)
Latin American Jewish Studies: Social Sciences
- Course flier: Cuban Jews: Diaspora, Identity, and the Search for Home (Ruth Behar)
- Syllabus: Cuban Jews: Diaspora, Identity, and the Search for Home (Ruth Behar)
Bibliographies
Judith Laikin Elkin, editor and compiler.
- Bibliography
of Books and Articles in Latin American Jewish Studies Published 1991-1996
- Bibliography
of Books and Articles in Latin American Jewish Studies Published 1997-1998
Joan E. Friedman, compiler.
- Bibliography of Books
and Articles in Latin American Jewish Studies Published 1999-2000
- Bibliography of Books
and Articles in Latin American Jewish Studies Published 2001-2004
- LAJSA Newsletter Library
David G. Hirsch, editor and compiler.
Publications
- Elkin, Judith Laikin and AnaLya Sater. Latin
American Jewish Studies: An Annotated Guide to the Literature. Greenwood
Press, 1990.
- Latin
American Jewish Studies: A Guide to the Literature. David G. Hirsch, editor
and compiler.
Websites
- Latin American Jewish Art
This site allows the viewer to appreciate the beauty, depth and variety of the visual and plastic arts created by Jewish artists of Latin America.
Allied Organizations
- AMIA
Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina
- AMILAT ~ please contact Dr.
Efraim Zadoff for information regarding AMILAT.
- American Jewish
Archives
One of the world's largest archives for the study of North American Jewry, the American Jewish Archives collects major records that relate to Jewish life in the Americas.
- Asociación
Mexicana de Amigos de la Universidad de Tel-Aviv
Friends of TAU in Mexico
- The Center for Jewish
History
The Center, located in New York City, includes both the American Jewish Historical Society and the American Sephardi Federation. Both have a significant library and archival collections on the Americas. - Centro de Investigación y de
Difusión de la Cultura Sefaradí (CIDiCSef)
- Centro
da Cultura Judaica - Casa de Cultura de Israel
- Estudos Judaicos (Blog)
- Estudos Judaicos (Discussion Group)
- H-LATAM
An international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History
- LANIC
Latin American Network Information Center
- Latin
American Special Interest Group
The Latin American SIG is dedicated to serving as clearinghouse of Jewish genealogical information about present and past communities throughout Latin America
- Latin
American Studies Association (LASA)
An Association for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America
- Sephardic
Special Interest Group
Links to web pages on the Jewish communities of the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America, as well as Anusim & Crypto Jews
- The World
Union of Jewish Studies
