Contributors
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Malena Chinski holds a degree in philosophy from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a postgraduate degree in Jewish Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. She is currently completing a doctoral program in Social Science at the National University of General Sarmiento. Her dissertation focuses on early memorial practices and representations of the Shoah within the Jewish community of Buenos Aires. Her articles have appeared in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Revista de Estudios Sociales, and Temas de Nuestra América. She has presented her work at seminars and conferences at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Museum of Art and History of Judaism (France), the University of Arizona, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the University of Toronto, Florida International University, and Western Galilee College (Israel).
Angy Cohen is currently completing her doctoral dissertation in Cultural Psychology in a joint PhD program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Autonomous University of Madrid. She received both her BA in Psychology and her MA in Philosophy in Madrid. The topic of her dissertation is the relation between autobiographical memory and identity in the context of the life stories of northern Moroccan Jews who emigrated to Argentina and Israel. Her publications range from the genealogical study of psychological categories to the Nietzschean contribution to the field of history of psychology, including her current field of research: Spanish-Moroccan Jewish identity in the life stories she has collected in her fieldwork in Argentina and Israel. She has been published in the Journal of North African Studies, Revista de Historia de la Psicología, and a chapter in Michael Dellwing and Martin Harbusch, eds., Krankheitskonstruktionen und Krankheitstreiberei. Die Renaissance der soziologischen Psychiatriekritik (2013).
Yael Dekel received her PhD from New York University in 2014. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University. She has published articles, essays, and book reviews, translated poetry, and edited books, most recently Utopia from Casablanca (2016). She is interested in Israeli literature and specifically the way in which it takes part in the relationship among discourse, social norms, power dynamics, ideology, and the state. She is a translator and an editor at the independent Ra'av Press, Beer-Sheva.
Lucas Fiszman holds a degree in Linguistics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he teaches and does research. His dissertation focuses on language contact and history of Yiddish teaching in Buenos Aires. He has presented his works at various conferences and symposia in Argentina, published in local and foreign journals, and contributed chapters in books. [End Page iv]
Shelley Garrigan is Associate Professor of Spanish at North Carolina State University. Her research so far has centered on nineteenth-century Mexico's cultural institutions and women's magazines, Latin American modernist poetry, digital exhibits, and twenty-first century expressions of patrimony, and early twentieth-century European migration to Mexico. Her book, Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments and the Creation of National Identity (2012), which explores the intersections of patrimony and commerce during the era of national consolidation and modernization in Mexico. She is currently developing a project on cultural representations of privacy and the private/public distinction in Latin American contexts.
Aviad Moreno is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Jewish History at Tel-Aviv University. Beginning September 2016, he is a research fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. His current book project explores the process of aliyah from northern Morocco from a transnational perspective within the context of other prominent local Jewish migrations to Latin America. His publications include Eropah mi-Maroko: ha-protokolim shel hanhagat kehilat Yehude Tangir (ha-Huntah), 1860–1864 (2015), and articles in the European Journal of Jewish Studies and Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. [End Page v]
