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Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Research Students

M.A. STUDENTS

  • Tzvi Tal – Thesis submitted in 1997. “History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Films of Fernando Solanas: Cinematic Representation of Changes in Argentina’s National Left Discourse, 1968-1992”
  • Inbal Ofer – Thesis submitted in 2002. “A “New Woman” for a “New Spain” -The Feminine Section of the Spanish Falange and the Construction of a New Feminine Identity”
  • Tamar Groves – Thesis submitted in 2002. “The Teacher as an Agent of Alternative Culture: The “Teachers’ Movement” during the Transition to Democracy in Spain (Salamanca, 1970-1979)”
  • Federico Gomez – Thesis submitted in 2005. “Music, Noise, Protest, Silence: Rock and Politics in Argentina, 1976-1983”
  • Atalia Shragai – Thesis submitted in 2006. “The Banana Men: the Creation of a Colonial Culture, The United Fruit Company in Central America, 1900-1960”
  • Daniel Kressel – Thesis submitted in 2009. “‘We Were All Guilty, Nobody is to Blame’: Strategies for the re-coding of the Spanish Civil War Memory during the Transition to Democracy in Spain”
  • Pinchas Lam – Thesis submitted in 2012. “Conflicting Identities: Germans in Brazil During the Third Reich”
  • Aaron Garcia – Thesis submitted in 2014. “Promoting Interests, Reducing Violence: the United Nations and the Question of Palestine 1947”
  • Julián Blejmar – Thesis submitted in FLACSO (Buenos Aires) 2016. “Formación, apogeo, y desmembramiento de la Confederación General Económica (CGE) 1947 – 1976”
  • Omri Elmaleh – Thesis submitted in 2016. “From The Baqa’a Valley to Ciudad del Este: The Lebanese Community in the Tri-Border Zone”
  • Maayan Pasamanik – Thesis submitted in 2017. “Domestic Servants in Buenos Aires during the 1950’s – 1960’s”
  • Lelya Stadler – Thesis submitted in 2020. “In Search of Wandering Husbands: Transatlantic Migration, Desertion and Divorce Between Poland and Argentina, 1918-1939”
  • Bernardo Vidne – Thesis submitted in 2020. “Ethnic Demands and Foreign Policy Considerations in Argentina: Carlos Menem and the Construction of the King Fahd Mosque in Buenos Aires”
  • Igal Aisenberg –thesis submitted in 2022. “The Contribution of Jewish Immigrants-Entrepreneurs to the Development of the Textile, Machinery and Metal Industries in Argentina, 1930-1945”.
  • Sheri Shamaev Hernan – Thesis submitted in 2024. “Missed Opportunities? Jewish Organizations and the Potential of Using Spain to Save Jews during the Holocaust”
  • (with Claudia Kedar), Shai Efrat – Thesis submitted in 2023.“Flamenco and Politics in Franco Spain”

PH.D. STUDENTS

  • Idit Gil – Dissertation submitted in 1998. “Nationalism and Social Justice in the Argentinian Intellectual Left: Sources for Peronist Ideology (1894-1947)?”
  • Tzvi Tal – Dissertation submitted in 2002. “Cinema, Cultural Dependence and Political Protest: The Struggle for National Identity Formation in Argentina and Brazil”
  • Efraim Davidi – Dissertation submitted in 2006. “Peronists and Revolutionaries: The Struggle for Hegemony and Generational Shifts in the Argentinian Labour Movement, 1966-1976”
  • Inbal Ofer – Dissertation submitted in 2007. “The Making of a Female Political Elite in Franco’s Spain: The National Leadership of the Sección Femenina de la FET (1936-1977) “
  • Silvina Gesser – Dissertation submitted in 2007. “Between Essentialism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Identities and Politics in Madrid’s Cultural Scene, 1923-1936”
  • David Horowitz – Dissertation submitted in 2006. “The Jewish Community and Aliyah From Argentina 1962-1973”
  • Claudia Kedar – Dissertation submitted in 2008. “The Routinization of Dependency: Argentina and the International Monetary Fund, 1944-1977”
  • Tamar Groves – Dissertation submitted in 2010. “The Successes of Failure: The Teachers’ Movement during the Spanish Transition to Democracy”
  • Aviv Cohen – Dissertation submitted in 2011. “Fire in the Backyard: The US and the American Press Facing the Revolutionary Ferment in the Caribbean Basin during the Cold War Years”
  • Gaby Yunes – Dissertation submitted in 2011. “Hibridization, Identity and Historic Narrative in Argentinean Telenovelas from the 1990s to 2006”
  • Martina Libertad Weisz – Dissertation submitted in 2013. “’Reunion’ Five Hundred Years After: Jews, Muslims and Latin Americans in Today’s Spain”
  • Atalia Shragai – Dissertation submitted in 2013. “‘Over the Rainbow’: Migration, Lives and Identifications among U.S. Citizens at Costa Rica, 1945-1980”
  • Guy Setton – Dissertation submitted in 2014. “Ghosts of the Past and the Contemporary Challenges of the Middle East: Spanish -Israeli Relations, 1956 -1992”
  • Yonit Rucki-Menashe – Dissertation submitted in 2016. “Football and Political Participation: Football Clubs in Seville and Barcelona during the Franco Regime and the Transition to Democracy”
  • Enrique Martínez Ruiz – Dissertation submitted in 2018. “Urban Growth, Real Estate and Jewish Immigrants: Leo Siegfried Kopp’s Real Estate Investments as a Strategy of Social Integration to Bogota, Colombia, 1889-1933”.
  • Ariel Noyjovich – Dissertation submitted in 2016. “Viva Berón!: Political Integration of Argentine-Arabs through the Peronist Movement, 1945-1976”
  • Mariusz Kalczewiak – Dissertation submitted in 2017. “Travelling, Reporting, Remembering. Poland, Argentina and the Bridges between Jewish Worlds, 1916-1960s”
  • Pablo Bornstien – Dissertation submitted in 2019. “Reclaiming al-Andalus: Orientalist Scholarship and National Historiography in Spain (1875-1919)”
  • Adrian Krupnik – Dissertation submitted in 2019. “Between Two Homelands: Jewish-Argentine Return Migration from Israel, 1948-2006”
  • Gustavo Guzmán Castro – Dissertation submitted in 2021. “From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen: Changes and Continuities in Chilean Right-Wing Attitudes toward Jews”
  • Omri Elmaleh – Dissertation submitted in 2021. “From The Middle East to Ciudad del Este: The Lebanese Community in the Tri-Border Zone”.
  • Hagai Rubinstein – Dissertation submitted in 2021. “Nakba, Naksa and Intifada: Diaspora, Transnationalism and the shaping of the Palestinian-Chilean Identity, 1948-2005” Dror Sharon – Research proposal approved in 2022: “Niños and kinder, between the Temporary and the Permanent: Refugge Children in Britain, 1937-1950”
  • Pablo Mendez Shiff – Research Proposal approved in 2024: “The Origins of the Global Presence of Argentine TV Industry”
  • Hezy Asher – Research Proposal approved in 2024: “Football and National Identity Formation: The Cases of Austria and Holland Vs. Germany”
  • Igal Aisenberg – Dissertation submitted in 2024: “Otherness and Industrial Entrepreneurship:  Jewish Immigrants, Nationalism, ISI and Finance Sourcing in Argentina, 1930-1960s.”
  • Hernan Dobry – Dissertation submitted in 2025: “Benjamín Rattenbach: Un judío oculto en la cima del poder militar en la Argentina.”

POST-DOCTORAL STUDENTS

  • Dr. Hillel Eyal, UCLA (2006)
  • Dr. Amalia Ran, University of Maryland (2007-2008)
  • Dr. Phil C.W. Chan, National University of Singapore (2014)
  • Dr. Aya Udagawa, University of Tokyo (2018-2019)

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS

Jacob Hutt ,”From Havana to the Holy Land: The peculiar tale of Cuban migration to Israel” (2013-2014)