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Contents Mensaje De Las Editoras / Message from the Editors LATIN AMERICAN JEWISH STUDIES FALL 2013 Volume 33.1 ESSN 0738-1379 http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/lajsa Mensaje de las editoras / Contents Message from the Editors Message from the Editors................................................................. 1 Message from the Presidents ........................................................... 2 Secretariat ........................................................................................ 3 Executive Board MemBers ................................................................ 3 Board of Directors ............................................................................ 4 Publications ...................................................................................... 5 Fiction and Poetry ............................................................................. 7 Awards .............................................................................................. 7 Scholarships ...................................................................................... 9 Conferences .................................................................................... 10 Dear LAJSA friends, Courses and Seminars..................................................................... 27 Book and Journal Presentations ..................................................... 27 This numBer of LAJS is our largest one to date. Memorials....................................................................................... 28 As you will see from photos, conference Calls for papers ............................................................................... 28 programs, and the summaries of papers Fellowships ..................................................................................... 29 Journals........................................................................................... 31 presented at our international congresses in WeB and Archival Resources .......................................................... 33 Austin (LAJSA) and in Jerusalem (AMILAT), the Film showings ................................................................................. 34 puBlications, presentations and awards LAJSA Pictures from the LAJSA Conference in Austin TX .......................... 35 memBers have kept actively participating in LAJSA and Amilat at the Sixteenth WUJS Congress͙͙͙͙͙͙͙͙͙͘͘39 national and international conferences. Summaries of presentations de miembros de LAJSA ..................... 40 Book Reviews .................................................................................. 64 We now look forward to receiving abstracts for Articles ............................................................................................ 68 OBituaries ....................................................................................... 72 the LAJSA Regional Conference that will take Financial Statement (OctoBer 17, 2013) ......................................... 75 place on May 1 and 2, 2014, in New York City, 2014 MEMBERSHIP FORM .............................................................. 76 1 coordinated by Nora Glickman and Ronnie additional proof of the vitality of our scholarly Perelis. association and assures the future of LAJSA. For stories and pictures from this conference go to: We also take advantage of this opportunity to http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/scjs/news ask you that you keep sending us material for /6777 our future issue LAJS, including book reviews, conference news, puBlications, awards, Preparations for the XVII International Research dissertations, etc. Conference have already started and a call for proposals for a venue should be out soon. Best wishes, Within a few weeks you will receive the call for Nora Glickman y Ariana HuBerman, co-editors papers for the NYC 2014 Regional Conference co-organized by our colleagues, Nora Glickman and Ronnie Perelis. It will be in the Northern Mensaje de los presidentes / Hemisphere Spring of 2014; the exact dates will Message from the Presidents Be announced when they have Been established. LAJSA's secretary, Margalit Bejarano, and Board memBer, Amalia Ran, will oversee forthcoming elections, as both of us will step down by spring, 2014 and new authorities will step in. We hope that all memBers take part in these elections. Our puBlication, Latin American Jewish Studies, is going from strength to strength. We would like to thank Nora Glickman and Ariana Dear LAJSA Friends, HuBerman for their excellent joB. The As we Begin a new season, we would like to importance of the bulletin as a resource in our update you about recent developments and expanding field is evidenced by our new new initiatives in our association. arrangement with EBSCOhost databases. In June 2013, we held the XVI International Under the leadership of LAJSA-list and Website Research Conference of LAJSA, co-sponsored by Manager Naomi Lindstrom, our weBsite is the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, at Becoming richer in information. Please visit: the University of Texas at Austin. Well www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/lajsa/ organized and with a rich program, it Brought Of special note is the expanded and updated together researchers from different registry of dissertations and theses on Latin countries,disciplines and generations. We were American Jewish topics at particularly impressed by the strong presence www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/lajsa/resources/diss ŽĨ͚ŶĞǁĨĂĐĞƐ͕͛ƚŚĂƚŝs, young scholars who are ertations-theses.php If you know of any thesis about to complete their dissertations or have or dissertation, whether completed or in recently done so. Such presence serves as an progress, that is not listed, please contact the 2 content manager at Raanan Rein [email protected] Co President Department of History With its new weB site, a PayPal system to Tel Aviv University facilitate joining LAJSA, the new memBership Tel Aviv 69978, Israel directory, and the richer Bulletin, we can now Better contriBute to the development of our Darrell B. Lockhart field. All of this could not have Been done Treasurer without the cooperation and work of our board Department of Foreign Languages and memBers, each of whom deserves our thanks. Literatures MS 100 As the season begins, we would like expand the University of Nevada-Reno circle of active contriButors to LAJSA, so we Reno, NV 89557-0034, USA invite all LAJSA memBers to send us their ideas and to tell us how they would like to help in Nora Glickman LAJSA's work. We feel it is important to include Editor (Ex-Officio) more people in the activities of the association. Department of Hispanic Languages and Do not hesitate to write to us at Literatures [email protected] ĂŶĚ Queens College and the Graduate Center [email protected] City University of New York 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Un cordial saludo, Flushing, NY 11367, USA Edna Aizenberg and Raanan Rein, Co- Presidents Ariana Huberman Editor (Ex-Officio) Department of Spanish Secretariat/ Secretariado Haverford College Margalit Bejarano Hall Building Secretary 370 Lancaster Avenue Institute of Contemporary Jewry Haverford, PA 19041, USA Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91905, Israel Naomi Lindstrom LAJSA-list and Website Manager (Ex-Officio) Department of Spanish and Portuguese/ Miembros del comité ejecutivo/ Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies BEN Executive Board Members 2.116 Edna Aizenberg 1 University Station B3700 Co President Austin, TX 78712-1155, USA Department of Spanish Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71 St., NY, NY 10021, USA 3 School of Jewish Studies Board of Directors 500 West 185th St. Adriana M. Brodsky New York, NY 10033 USA History Kent Hall, Rm. 304 Amalia Ran St. Mary's College of Maryland Tel Aviv University 18952 E. Fisher Rd. Emek Dotan 39/5 St. Mary's City, MD 20686-3001, USA Modin 71701 Israel Judith Laikin Elkin LAJSA Founding President Stephen A. Sadow Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Department of Languages, The University of Michigan Literatures and Cultures Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA 400 ME Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115-5000 Elisa Cohen de Chervonagura USA Universidad Nacional de Tucumán San Lorenzo 814 Saúl Sosnowski 4000 Department of Spanish and Portuguese, SLLC Tucumán, Argentina University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Ronnie Perelis USA Yeshiva University Bernard Revel Graduate 4 pages, copyright 2013, ISBN 978-0-1800-0 ISBN Publicaciones / Publications (e book) 978-0-8173-8678-8 "Escaping Hitler" is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family's escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the socio-historical context of the 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi Party had an active presence in the country's major institutions. Based primarily on interviews with German Jewish refugees and David Serrano BlanQuer, Isaac family correspondence, Eva Wyman provides an Borojovich y la memoria uruguaya de la Shoá intimate account of Jews in Germany in the Montevideo: Trilce, 2013 1930s as Nazi controls tightened and family ISBN: 9789974326170 memBers were taken to Riga and Theresienstadt concentration camps. Recounted in an intimate and personal style, "Escaping Hitler" immerses the reader in an extraordinary chapter of Contemporary Jewish history inside Both Germany and South America. Mollie Lewis Nouwen, Oy, My Buenos Aires: Jewish Immigrants and the Creation of Argentine National Identity, University of New Mexico Press. 192 pages; Raanan Rein, Claudio Panella ISBN 978-0-8263-5350-4. For more information (comps.) Cultura para todos: El suplemento de [email protected],
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