Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present

Learning and Teaching Jewish American History

Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present

Raanan Rein

Raanan Rein is the Elias Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History. Former Vice President of Tel Aviv University and Co-President of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, Rein is the author of numerous books, including Jewish Self Defense in South America, Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina, Futbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina.

Rein is available to give talks or class visits online or in person for a fee. Languages: English, Spanish, Hebrew.

Academic Website: https://www.raananrein.sites.tau.ac.il/

Recent works:

Laura Leibman

Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work focuses on religion and the daily lives of women and children in early America, and uses everyday objects to help bring their stories back to life. She is the author of "The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects" (BGC 2020), "Indian Converts" (UMass Press, 2008) and "Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2012), which won a National Jewish Book Award, a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies, and was selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013. Laura has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Utrecht University, the University of Panama, and the Leon Levy Foundation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center. Laura, who earned her PhD from UCLA, is currently at work on a book that uses material culture to trace the history of members of a multiracial family who began their lives enslaved in the Caribbean but became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York.