Dissertations & Theses
Post-doctoral
Completed
2003
Nascimento, Lyslei de Souza
Pós-Doutorado em Estudos Literários
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Director: Ricardo Forster
Literatura de imigração judaica no Brasil e na Argentina
Doctorate
Completed
2008
Bekerman Targ, Jessica
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
Brauner, Susana.
Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires)
Director: Jorge Soneira
Los judíos de origen sirio en Argentina: identidad, liderazgo, participación política y alineamientos en el conflicto árabe-israelí, 1900-2000
Faulk, Karen Ann
PhD in Anthropology
University of Michigan
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)
2007
Gleizer Salzman, Daniela
Colegio de México
Doctorado en Historia
Asesora: Clara E. Lida
Exiliados incómodos; México y los refugiados judíos del nazismo (1933-1945)
Lewis, Mollie
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
Nuriel, Patricia
Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Emil Volek
Memoria e identidad en la novela judía latinoamericana contemporánea
Ran, Amalia
University of Maryland Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Saúl Sosnowski
Hechos de orillas: Nuevas expresiones de la identidad judeo-argentina contemporánea
Schaposchnik, Ana
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)
Solomon, Clair Thora
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
Fainstein Jelin, Daniel
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
Hurovitz, David
Tel Aviv University
Ph.D. in History
Directors: Dina Porat and Raanan Rein
The Jewish Community and Aliyah From Argentina 1962 – 1973 (in Hebrew)
Staropolsky Nowalsky, Frida
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
Roitman Meschiani, Deborah Batia
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
Brodsky, Adriana M.
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
Graff Zivin, Erin
New York University
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: Sylvia Molloy
The Wandering Signifier: Rhetorical Functions of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
Weingarten, Laura Suzanne
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
Meter, Alejandro
University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Director: Mabel Moraña
Recovered Narratives: Collective Memory in Contemporary Argentine Jewish Fiction
2002
Bell, Lawrence D.
Ohio State University
Directors: Kenneth J. Andrien, Donna Guy
The Jews and Perón: Communal Politics and National Identity in Peronist Argentina, 1946-1955
Huberman, Ariana
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)
Klein, Misha
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Anthropology
Advisor: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Braided Lives: On Being Jewish and Brazilian in São Paulo
2001
Berger, Silvia
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
Nascimento, Lyslei de Souza
Doutorado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil
Director: Wander Melo Miranda.
Vestígios da tradição Judaica: Borges e outros rabinos
1999
Gil, Lydia Mariana
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
Raicher, Rosa Perla
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)
Seider, Shari
Stanford University Ph.D.
Looking Forward to the Past: The Ultra-Orthodox Community of Buenos Aires, Argentina
1997
Benjamin, Alan F.
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
Goldstein, Yosi (Jorge /Yosef)
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)
Lockhart, Darrell B.
Arizona State University
Ph.D. in Spanish
Director: David William Foster
Argentine-Jewish Essayists: Writing on Both Sides of the Hyphen
1994
Ben Dror, Graciela
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)
Nazario, Luis
Universidade de São Paulo
Doutorado em História Social
Directora: Anita Novinsky
Imaginários da destruição: O papel do cinema na preparação do Holocausto
1993
Bejarano, Margalit
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)
Zadoff, Efraim
Tel Aviv University
Ph.D. in Education
Directors: Yizhak Kashti and Dina Porat
Jewish Education in Buenos Aires, 1935-1957 (in Hebrew)
1991
Bokser Misses, Judit
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas
Directora: Eugenia Meyer
El Movimiento Nacional Judío. El sionismo en México 1922 -1947
1989
Lesser, Jeffrey H.
New York University
Ph.D. in History
Director: Warren Dean
Pawns of the Powerful: Jewish Immigration to Brazil, 1904-1945
Pak-Artsi, Diana I.
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
Rojer, Olga Elaine
University of Maryland
The German-Speaking Exile in Argentina, 1933-1945: A Historical and Literary Introduction
1984
Kominsky, Ethel V.
Ph.D. in History
Universidade de São Paulo
Rolandia a terra prometida: judeus refugiados do nazismo no norte do Paraná
Schenkolewski (Tractinsky), Silvia
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)
Szklo, Gilda S.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Alegoria e tradição: o universo de judaísmo de Moacyr Scliar
Toledo, Maria Augusta
Universidade de São Paulo
O judeu no teatro brasileiro: personagem e máscara
1983
Ramagem, Sonia B.
Universidade Federal de Brasília
A fénix de Abraão
1981
Gordon, Marjorie Salgado
Ph.D. in Spanish University of Maryland
Director: Saúl Sosnowski
Alberto Gerchunoff and Samuel Eichelbaum: Two Literary Reflections on Judeo-Argentinidad
1980
Eichen, Josef Davis
Ph.D. in History
Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, R.D.
Sosúa: Una colonia hebrea en la República Dominicana
Hordes, Stanley Mark
Ph.D. in History
Tulane University
The Crypto-Jewish Community of New Spain, 1620-1649: A Collective Biography
Zveibil, Silvia Jan
Universidade de São Paulo
Identidade étnica judaica: caracterização e processo de constituição
1978
Glickman, Nora
New York University
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Directors: Wilson Martins and Helene Anderson
The Jewish Image in Argentine and Brazilian Literature
1976
Elkin, Judith Laikin
University of Michigan
Ph.D. in History
Director: Charles Gibson
History of the Jews of Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Spitta, Arnold
University of Frankfurt
Paul Zech im Sudamerikanischen Exil, 1933-1946: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Deutschen Emigration in Argentina
1972
Siqueira, Sonia A.
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
In Progress
Cherjovsky, Iván
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Doctorado en Filosofía y Letras
Directora: María Bjerg
Co-directora: Roxana Boixadós
De la Rusia zarista la pampa argentina. Memoria e identidad en las colonias de la Jewish Colonization Association
Dean-Olmsted, Evelyn
Indiana University
Director: Joelle Bahloul
Language, Heritage and Religion among Young Syrian Jewish Mexicans
Dimentstein, Marcelo
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Doctorado en Historia
Director: Daniel Lvovich
Tema de investigación: Historia urbana y cultural del barrio del "Once" en Buenos Aires (1905-1930)
Dujovne, Alejandro
Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento, Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social (IDES)
Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales
Director: Gustavo Sorá
Co-Director: Dr. Ricardo Forster
Impresiones del judaísmo. Edición, traducción y representaciones de "lo judío" en Buenos Aires, 1920-1980
Feldman Wasser, Dalia
M.A. in Spanish
Northeastern University
Director: Stephen A. Sadow
Marcos Aguinis: Ministro de Cultura de la Argentina, Activista Social
Gonzaga e Silva, Vivien
Doutorado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil.
Director: Lyslei de Souza Nascimento
A chave da casa: uma história dos sefarditas na América
Gurvich Peretzman, Natalia
Universidad Iberoamérica, Campus Ciudad de México
Director: Jane Dale Lloyd
La vida cotidiana de la migrante ashkenazí a México. 1920-1940
Kahan, Emmanuel Nicolás
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Doctorado en Historia
Director: Daniel Lvovich
Co-director: Andrés Bisso
Entre la aceptación y el distanciamiento: actitudes sociales, posicionamientos y memoria de la experiencia judía durante la última dictadura militar (1976-1983)
Katznelson, Anna
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature
Director: Seth L. Wolitz
De-Judaized Narratives and Authors In Exile From the Jewish Self (contains chapter on Clarice Lispector)
Levy, Leonel Edgardo
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Doctorado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, orientación Ciencia Política
Directora: Judit Bokser Misses-Liwerant
Yeshayahu Leibowitz: de la filosofía de la religión a la crítica social
Schenquer, Laura
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales
Directora: Claudia V. Feld
Vida cotidiana en los espacios de socialización judía durante la Dictadura (1976-1983)
Damián Setton
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Doctorado en Ciencias Sociles
Directores: Fortunato Mallimaci, Maurice Kriegel
Judíos ortodoxos y judíos no afiliados en procesos de interacción. El caso de Jabad Lubavitch
Visacovsky, Nerina
Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales
Director: Fernando Devoto
El discurso pedagógico de la izquierda judeo-argentina (1935-1968)
Rabbinic Thesis
1983
Kulwin, Clifford
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Rabbinic Thesis: The Emergence of Progressive Judaism in South America
Master's Theses
Completed
2009
Morales-Garcia, Edgar A.
Graduate Center, CUNY
M.A. in Liberal Arts
Director: Nora Glickman
Personal, Social, Gender and Jewish Cultural Identiy in the Novels of Isaac Chocrón
2008
Coelho, Elizabete Chaves
Mestrado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil.
Directora: Lyslei de Souza Nascimento
Olhares imigrantes: literatura judaica no Brasil
Davari, Leili
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)
Doran, Erin
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
Kirsten, Jessica
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
Navarro Rosenblatt, Valeria
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
Ran, Fanny
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
Grienfeld, Yerach
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Margalit Bejarano
The Young Zionist Socialists Sections in Argentina in the Early 1960s (in Hebrew)
Kahan, Emmanuel Nicolás
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.
Klor, Sebastian
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A. in Contemporary Jewry
Director: Leonardo Senkman
Jewish Immigration to Cordoba (Argentina) (in Hebrew)
Setton, Damián
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
Telias Bardavid, David
Universidad ORT Uruguay
Maestría en Educación
La enseñanza de la Shoá en la Red Escolar Judía de Montevideo
2006
Dujovne, Alejandro
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
2004
Siesel, Tamar
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
Portnoi, Haim
Hebrew university of Jerusalem
M.A. in Sociology
Director: Luis Roniger
Olim from Cuba 1995-2001: Their Integration in Israel (in Hebrew)
2001
Babis, Deby
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
Sterntel, Daniel
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
Aronovich, Emilia
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)
1999
Prekker, Annette H.
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
1989
Nazario, Luis
Universidade de São Paulo
Mestrado em História Social
Directora: Anita Novinsky
Autos-de-fé como espetáculos de massa
In Progress
Andrade, Maria Isabel de Matos
Mestrado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil.
Director:Lyslei Nascimento
Monstros e seres imaginários judaicos na obra de Jorge Luis Borges
Cabral, Shirley Aparecida Gomide
Mestrado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil.
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Bíblia e arquivo: contos judaicos de Moacyr Scliar
Feldman Wasser, Dalia
M.A. in Spanish
Northeastern University
Director: Stephen A. Sadow
Marcos Aguinis: Ministro de Cultura de la Argentina, Activista Social
Lourdes, Luciara
Mestrado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil.
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Retratos biográficos de Olga Benario: entre a ficção e a história
Matheus, Simone Guimarães
Mestrado em Estudos Literários
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil
Director: Lyslei Nascimento
Sagradas apropriações em A mulher que escreveu a Bíblia
Quintão, Glauber Pereira
Mestrado em Letras
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brasil.
Director: Lyslei de Souza Nascimento
Genealogia e antigenealogia em A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes
