Founded in 1982, LAJSA unites scholars in Latin American Jewish Studies. Goals include promoting scholarship, sharing research opportunities, organizing events, publishing findings, and maintaining a member network.https://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mwv5pt7ho22r📚✨ New stories in Jewish Fiction! 🔗 Read “Chiko Israel”: https://jewishfiction.com/story/chiko-israel-a-real-story-that-occurred-in-istanbul-in-1916/ 🔗 Read “The House”: https://jewishfiction.com/story/the-house/02 Oct 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwv5pt7ho22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mwv5nbhmn22r🌎✨ What does it mean to be Jewish, Arab, and Mexican? 📅 October 18 💻 Free online event 🔗 Register and learn more: http://bit.ly/heritageandhumor02 Oct 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwv5nbhmn22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mwv5kxkf522r🇫🇷🇦🇷 ¡René Goscinny llega a Buenos Aires! 📚✨ 📅 22 de octubre de 2026 ✨ ¡No se lo pierdan!02 Oct 2026 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwv5kxkf522rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mwv5hbctvc2r📢 Call for Papers | What Makes a Diaspora? Middle Eastern Minorities, the Americas, and Jewish Studies in Conversation 📅 Deadline: 15/10/2026 📝 Abstract: up to 400 words + 1–2 page academic CV 📍 University of Cologne | 24–25 May 2027 💬 English 🔗 Full call: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20163811/cfp-what-makes-diaspora-middle-eastern-minorities-americas-and-jewish02 Oct 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwv5hbctvc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mtsq4wkzzs2p📣 Call for Papers: LAJSA 2027 in Quito! Join the XXII LAJSA International Research Conference, July 7–9, 2027, at UTE University 🇪🇨 Papers, panels, roundtables, book presentations & creative works welcome. 📅 Deadline: Oct. 1, 2026 🔗 https://lajsa.org/cfp-lajsa-2027/24 Aug 2026 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsq4wkzzs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mp43rasjfc23📢 Call for Papers – Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Annual Conference 2026 📅 Conference Date: October 25, 2026 📩 Proposal Deadline: August 15, 2026 🌐 Online (Zoom) 📝 Presentations must be in English. For submissions and inquiries: sward@aya.yale.edu (Subject: SCJS2026)25 Jun 2026 09:15 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp43rasjfc23https://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3moxuohcafk2o📢 LAJSA is pleased to welcome Mirna Vohnsen as the Association’s new Awards Coordinator! In this role, Mirna will oversee the Best Book and Best Dissertation awards committees while continuing her work as LAJS Journal Book Review Editor. 📚🏆 https://lajsa.org/new-lajsa-awards-coordinator/23 Jun 2026 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxuohcafk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mov6bjni3s2c📢 Call for Papers 📝 Propuestas para “Desde al-Ándalus/Sefarad hasta Constantinopla: hacia un hispanismo policéntrico” 📍 Augsburgo, Alemania 📅 7–11 marzo 2027 ⏳ Deadline: 18 agosto 2026 ℹ️ https://iberorom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/18-LIT_Hacia-un-hispanismo-policentrico.pdf22 Jun 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mov6bjni3s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mouk2imzjk2a📚✨ Congratulations to LAJSA member Nora Glickman on the publication of her new book, "From the Pampas to New York, with Detours: Scenes from the Life of a Jewish Gaucha"! ✨📚 Congratulations, Nora, on this remarkable contribution to Jewish and Latin American letters! 👏🎉22 Jun 2026 09:09 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mouk2imzjk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mokypctk2c2y📢 CFA! 🌍 Scholars working on migration, Holocaust studies, Jewish studies, history, geography, and related fields are invited to apply. 📅 Workshop: 10/2026 & 07/2027 ⏳ Deadline: July 17, 2026 📌 Latin Americanists especially encouraged to apply. https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/international-academic-programs/international-research-workshops/global-geographies-of-the-holocaust18 Jun 2026 14:05 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokypctk2c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mofkh4dwdc2u🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Debora Kantor! LAJSA is pleased to announce that Dr. Debora Kantor (Escuela de Arte y Patrimonio, Universidad Nacional de San Martín) is the recipient of the 2026 Edna Aizenberg Research Award. 🔗 More information: https://lajsa.org/announcing-the-2026-edna-aizenberg-award-recipient/16 Jun 2026 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mofkh4dwdc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mo6jj2nlls2s📚🎙️ ¡No te pierdas una nueva sesión de SIMANIÁ: Lecturas de salón! 📅 15 de junio de 2026 | ⏰ CDMX 11:00 • Nueva York 13:00 • Buenos Aires 14:00 • París 19:00 • Jerusalén 20:00 🗣️ Evento en castellano. 🔗 Inscripción: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/b_e_PKwgTvy0gOZP6wO4CQ13 Jun 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo6jj2nlls2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mo6jgh5yf22s📢 ✨ ¡Ya está abierta la convocatoria para el envío de artículos a la revista MILTA #9! ✨📚 🗓️ Fecha límite para el envío de artículos: 30 de junio de 2026 📄 Consulta aquí las bases completas de la convocatoria: https://revistamilta.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Bases-para-el-envio-de-articulos-%E2%80%93-Revista-MILTA.pdf13 Jun 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo6jgh5yf22shttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mn2ukj77qk2k🎉 LAJSA has announced the results of its 2026 elections! Meet the newly elected Co-Presidents, Board Members at Large, and Ex Officio members who will officially take office on July 1, 2026. 📖 Read the announcement here: https://lajsa.org/lajsa-2026-elections/ #LAJSA #LatinAmericanJewishStudies #JewishStudie30 May 2026 10:43 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn2ukj77qk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mmqlccfij22d📚🎥 The recording is now available on LAJSA’s Simania: Salon Readings platform! Presentation of the book Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews (2026) by Gustavo Guzmán (ISGAP, New York). 🗣️ Coordination: Cynthia Gabbay (CONICET-LICH-UNSAM) 🔗 Watch it now on Simania https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYdiSHS1gQ26 May 2026 08:30 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmqlccfij22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mmgpqjjnmk2s🕍✨ A exposição itinerante Mooca Judaica: histórias e memórias de uma comunidade já está no Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo! 🇧🇷 📍 Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo 🗓️ Até 21/06/2026 https://museudaimigracao.org.br/exposicoes/itinerantes/mooca-judaica-historias-e-memorias-de-uma-comunidade?fbclid=IwY2xjawR9DbtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeLvMvbIS2acdzYBSZRrz535rJtQEWhFF9UZmLDoWNj6lpPyLC4-b9LdUYhLM_aem_qjZ2Jy2A5Z8t8_zWRzhbkg22 May 2026 10:23 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmgpqjjnmk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mmgpm5w2q22s📢 Call for Papers | What Makes a Diaspora? Middle Eastern Minorities, the Americas, and Jewish Studies in Conversation 🌍📚 📝 Deadline: October 1, 2026 📍 Cologne, Germany 🎓 Early-career scholars strongly encouraged to apply. More info & submissions: m.lehmann@uni-koeln.de / moreno.av@ufl.edu22 May 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmgpm5w2q22shttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mm4qg7zpa225🎉 LAJSA felicita a Cynthia Gabbay por el reconocimiento de su artículo “Exponential Minor Literatures” como “Article of the Year” (2024) por la sección de yiddish de The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 👏📚 ¡Un merecido reconocimiento! 📖 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2024.231475718 May 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4qg7zpa225https://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mm4qcvoczk25Ya está disponible la octava edición de la revista Milta. Los invitamos a leer este nuevo número y descubrir sus artículos, reflexiones y aportes sobre temas de interés para el campo de los estudios judíos latinoamericanos. 📖 Léela aquí: revistamilta.org/revista-8/18 May 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4qcvoczk25https://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mm4qa5ar4s25🎬 El cine documental vuelve al Museo Judío de Buenos Aires. 📍 Museo Judío y Templo Libertad – Libertad 769 🗓️ Martes 19 de mayo | 18 hs 🎟️ Actividad gratuita con inscripción previa 👉 Inscribite acá: https://forms.gle/JAW7JzYxAWp3nVYH718 May 2026 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm4qa5ar4s25https://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mldv6vhd7c22📚 SIMANIÁ: Lecturas de salón invita a la presentación del libro Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews, de Gustavo Guzmán (Routledge, 2026). 🗓 19 de mayo de 2026 ⏰ 10:30 a.m. Santiago & Gainesville | 16:30 Berlín | 17:30 Jerusalén 🔗 Inscripción: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KxB75pDlRFW5fmsRAiB3bA08 May 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldv6vhd7c22https://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mld54l4gxk2x📚 ¿Defendiste recientemente una tesis doctoral o de maestría sobre temática judía latinoamericana? LAJSA quiere incluirla en su registro de tesis! 👇 Envía toda la información a: lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu Ayúdanos a difundir la investigación sobre judaísmo latinoamericano!08 May 2026 06:47 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mld54l4gxk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3ml6czeupkc2g⚽🕯️ Memoria, historia y fútbol: una exposición que invita a reflexionar 📍 Galería Nacional (Museo de los Niños, San José) 📅 Hasta el 24 de mayo de 2026 https://www.enlacejudio.com/2026/04/17/exposicion-internacional-no-fue-un-juego-llega-a-costa-rica-para-reflexionar-sobre-el-holocausto-a-traves-del-futbol/06 May 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6czeupkc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3ml6cwqlsrc2g📚✨ Foro de Investigadores Judíos Latinoamericanos Te invitamos a la presentación del libro de Leonardo Senkman: “Semblanzas de vida y muerte; utopistas latinoamericanos en Israel” 🗓 Jueves 28 de mayo 🕔 17:00 hs (Israel) 💻 Zoom 🔗 Únete aquí: https://huji.zoom.us/j/83496241291?pwd=S87WgnSrfGl10ylULqwrdtZCcOUWCz.106 May 2026 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6cwqlsrc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mkz3kzbvy22d📚✨ Nuevo programa intensivo – Yiddish Barcelona 2026 ✨📚 🗓 19–24 de julio de 2026 📍 Casa Adret, Barcelona 💸 Precio: 250€ 📩 Inscripción: yiddish.barcelona@gmail.com 🔗 Más info: www.yiddishbarcelona.org04 May 2026 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkz3kzbvy22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mka7mnnqtk2d📚✨ New Resource for Latin American Jewish Studies! The archive of syllabi and course descriptions on Latin American Jewish topics has just been updated! 🔗 Explore it here: https://lajsa.org/resources/syllabi-and-course-descriptions/ 📩 Have a syllabus to share? Write to: lindstrom@austin.utexas.edu24 Apr 2026 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mka7mnnqtk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mk5hk7lrs226📚✨ New Release | Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews ✨ A compelling new study by Gustavo Guzmán explores the complex relationships between Chile, its leaders, and the Jewish world. 🗓 Published: April 16, 2026 📖 236 pages | 11 illustrations 💸 Hardback €152 | eBook €43.9923 Apr 2026 07:12 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5hk7lrs226https://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mk5hhgw44s26📚✨ Yiddish Summer Program 2026 – Tel Aviv University ✨📚 🗓 July 5–30, 2026 📍 Tel Aviv University ⏰ Sunday–Thursday, 9:30–13:00 💸 Tuition: $1450 | Registration: $60 🎓 Scholarships available 👉 More info: en-humanities.tau.ac.il/naomiyiddish23 Apr 2026 07:11 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5hhgw44s26https://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mjvxbngqas2r📢 Call for Papers – Contemporary Antisemitism ✍️ Submissions welcome: • Academic articles & critical reviews • Short stories, poetry, translations, chronicles • Visual and artistic works 📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026 📖 Publication: November 2026 🔗 Submit here: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/about20 Apr 2026 07:33 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvxbngqas2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/lajsa.bsky.social/post/3mjeex5t6d22w📚✨ ¡Nueva iniciativa para combatir el antisemitismo en las escuelas! La Anti-Defamation League (ADL), junto con la Comunidad Judía de Chile y el Museo Judío de Chile, lanzó COAJ: Combatiendo el Odio y el Antisemitismo Juntos 🇨🇱 👉 Haz click aquí para más info: https://www.adl.org/es/resources/press-release/adl-anuncia-el-programa-digital-coaj-en-chile-para-combatir-el?fbclid=IwY2xjawRJf0RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeWqsl___XIjgIQRHOzhwLI3jc57zpYEL4R5Wg8c6xvMgp3Ppp55hrsZe9Yos_aem_edTigv2aI_s-ZFUTNUnDqA13 Apr 2026 07:49 +0000at://did:plc:jybfyaemvjp4mavuemvdbpgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjeex5t6d22w