Notes on Contributors
Lukas Böckmann
studied Ibero-American History, Romance Languages and Literature and Philosophy at the universities of Cologne, Universidad Veracruzana, and Universidad de Buenos Aires. He completed his Diploma in 2013 and worked as an academic assistant at the Academy Project “European Traditions—Encyclopedia of Jewish Cultures.” He is currently a doctoral candidate in Leipzig at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture–Simon Dubnow. His project “A Paradise on Earth” analyzes the hidden religious roots of the Latin American guerrilla movements of the 1960s and the New Left milieu surrounding it.
Larry D. Gragg
is Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at Missouri University of Science and Technology where he served as chair of the history and political science department for seventeen years. He has won more than twenty teaching awards, including the University of Missouri President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching. He is the author of ten books including “Bright Light City”: Las Vegas in Popular Culture (2013); Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel: The Gangster, the Flamingo, and The Making of Modern Las Vegas (2015); and Becoming America’s Playground: Las Vegas in the 1950s (2019).
Gabriela Jonas Aharoni
teaches in the School of Audio and Visual Arts, Communication and Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Sapir College (Israel). Her book, Argentinian Telenovelas. Southern Sagas Rewrite Social and Political Reality, was published by Sussex Academic Press (2015). Jonas Aharoni has also published several articles in academic journals, such as “Jewish Identities in Argentinian Television Fiction: The case of Graduados,” in Jewish Film and New Media, and “Globalización e identidades plurales en las telenovelas argentinas de fines de siglo,” in E.I.A.L. Her chapter, “The Other as Mirror: Representation of Jews and Palestinians on Argentinian and Chilean Television Screens,” was included in the volume The New Ethnic Studies: Jewish Latin Americans in a Comparative Perspective, Brill, 2017.
Adrián Krupnik
obtained his PhD in history at Tel Aviv University. After studying sociology at the University of Buenos Aires, he received an MA in Israel Studies at Haifa University. Adrián Krupnik’s research stands at the intersection of Latin American and Israel studies by uniting two strands of modern Jewish history: development and change in a Diaspora community whose members integrated successfully into the host society, and the evolving relationship of that community with Israel. During his sojourn at Universität Potsdam he completed his first book manuscript, “Between Two Homelands: Jewish-Argentine Return Migration from Israel, 1948–2006.” Krupnik’s new project is “German-Argentine and Jewish-Argentine Youth in Radical Times: Ethno-Political Identities and Transnational Bonds in Comparative Perspective, 1966–1976.”
Michael Petrou
is a historian and journalist. He is an adjunct professor of history at Carleton University in Canada and is editor-in-chief of Open Canada, an online magazine about Canada’s place in the world. Petrou was the 2018 Martin Wise Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and was previously a Chevening Scholar at Saint Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where he completed a DPhil in modern history. Petrou is the author of Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War and Is This Your First War? Travels through the Post-9/11 Islamic World. He has won the Ottawa Book Award and three Canadian National Magazine Awards.
Stephanie M. Pridgeon
is assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at Bates College and the author of Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film (University of Toronto Press), as well as several articles on Latin American film, literature, and cultural studies.
Raanan Rein
is the Elias Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History and former vice president of Tel Aviv University. He is also head of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies. Rein is the author and editor of more than forty books and numerous articles and book chapters. He is a member of Argentina’s National Academy of History, and former president of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA). The Argentine government awarded him the title of Commander in the Order of the Liberator San Martin for his contribution to Argentine culture.
David M.K. Sheinin
is professor and director of the History Graduate Program at Trent University. He is the winner of the university’s Distinguished Research Award (2017) and his most recent book is Race and Transnationalism in the Americas (co-edited with Benjamin Bryce, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).
Barry L. Stiefel
PhD is an Associate Professor in the Historic Preservation & Community Planning program at the College of Charleston, which is part of the Department of Art and Architectural History. He is interested in researching how the sum of local preservation efforts affects regional, national, and multinational policies within the field of cultural resource management and natural heritage conservation, with a particular focus on Jewish heritage. Dr. Stiefel has published numerous books and articles.
Amy Weiss
is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History and holds the Maurice Greenberg Chair of Judaica Studies at the University of Hartford. She was previously a Thomas and Elissa Ellant Katz Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Her research and publications focus on the intersections of American religion, Israeli culture, and Jewish-Protestant relations. Most recently, her articles have appeared in the journals American Jewish History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Israel Studies. She is currently writing a book manuscript on the evolving interfaith alliances between American Jews and evangelicals. Weiss received her PhD from the Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History departments at New York University.