Jews of the Americas Spring 2025 Events
Photo Credit: Lior Neiger
Past Events
June 4, 2025
Professor Judit Bokser Liwerant
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lown 315, Brandeis Unversity
Event with book signing
Professor Liwerant's scholarship sheds light on Latin American Jewry's shared and unique challenges and transformations by addressing the intersecting national, transnational, and diasporic conditions and identities. Her book traces the trajectory of Jewish modernity and the migratory processes that have shaped, and continue to redefine, Latin American Jewry's communal profile and dilemmas, oscillating between acceptance and exclusion.
Issues of belonging and otherness are critically examined through the evolving national representations and the ideologies embraced by Latin American Jews, with a particular emphasis on Zionism. The book highlights the creativity and vitality of their transnational existence, especially as it unfolds across national and regional borders, with an insightful focus on the United States
March 18, 2025
Professor Raanan Rein and Professor Federico Finchelstein7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Mandel Center Forum, Brandeis University
Event with book signing
Professor Federico Finchelstein of the New School in New York joined JOTA Visiting Professor Raanan Rein to discuss Argentine President Javier Milei’s unique and notable public attitude to Judaism and the State of Israel and current right-wing populist movements in the Americas and Europe.
Their latest books, Las Fuerzas del Cielo: Argentina, Milei y los Judíos and The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy, were available for sale during a dessert reception and book signing.
February 24, 2025
Professor Raanan Rein12:30 PM ET
Mandel Center for the Humanities, 3rd Floor, Room 328
Professor Rein discussed the participation of Jews from the Yishuv who fought on the side of the Republic during the Spanish Civil War.
This event was cosponsored by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and the Jews of the Americas (JOTA) initiative of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.