Personal:

Born: Jerusalem, November 1941, Nee Bachi
Married, three daughters

Academic Studies:

1993 PhD. Hebrew University. Subject of dissertation: The Jewish Community of Cuba
1898-1939: Communal Consolidation and Trends of Integration Under the Impact of Changes in World Jewry and Cuban Society

1976 M.A., Hebrew University. Subject of thesis: The History of the Spanish Speaking Community of Buenos Aires (1930-1945).

University Teaching:

Teacher in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, The Hebrew University
Teacher in the Seminary of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
Coorganizer and teacher in courses for training workers in oral history (in the framework of the Oral History Division, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University.)

Research

Since 1982 - Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University, in the Dept. of Latin America, Spain and Portugal and in the Oral History Division. Main areas of interest: History of the Jews in Cuba from the early 20th century to the present and history of the Sephardic Jewish communities in Latin America.

Currently preparing a book on the history of the Jewish National Fund in Cuba, in the framework of the Research Institute of the J.N.F.

List of Publications:

Books:

La comunidad hebrea de Cuba - la memoria y la historia, Instituto Abraham Harman de Juda?smo Contempor?neo, Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalem, 1996.

Between the Hell of Europe and the Heaven of America - Cuban Jewry 1898 - 1939 (in preparation).


Articles

1. "Sephardic Jews in Argentina" (Hebrew), Bitfuzoth Hagola, 85/86, Jerusalem 1978, pp.124-142.

2. "The History of the Spanish Speaking Community of Buenos Aires (1930-1945)" (Hebrew), in: Issachar Ben-Ami (ed.), The Sephardi and Oriental Jewish Heritage, Magnes Press, Jerusalem 1982, pp. 161-170.

3. "El cementerio y la unidad comunitaria en la historia de los sefaradim de Buenos Aires" Michael, Tel Aviv University Vol. VIII, 1983, pp.24-43.

4. (a) "Los Sefarad?es, pioneros de la inmigraci?n jud?a a Cuba", Rumbos, No. 14, Jerusalem 1985, pp. 107-122.

(b) "The Sepharadim, Pioneers of Jewish Immigration to Cuba" (Hebrew), in: Abraham Haim (ed.), Society and Community, Misgav Yerushalayim, Jerusalem 1991, pp. 113-132.

5."Los Sefarad?es en la Argentina: particularismo etnico frente a tendencias de unificaci?n", Rumbos no. 17-18, Jerusalem 1986, pp. 143-160.

6. "Deproletarization of Cuban Jews", Judaica Latinoamericana, Amilat (ed.), Magnes press, Jerusalem 1988, pp. 57-67.

7. "Antisemitism in Cuba During the Holocaust Period" (Hebrew), Yahadut Zemanenu, Vol, 5, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1989, pp. 301-327.

8. "Cuba as America's Back Door: The Case of Jewish Immigration", Judaica Latinoamericana, Amilat (ed.), Magnes Press, Jerusalem 1993, pp. 43-56.

9. "Antisemitism in Cuba under Democratic, Military and Revolutionary Regimes 1944-1963", Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 24, no. 1, IJA, Summer 1990, pp. 32-46.

10. "El problema del antisemitismo en Cuba y la revoluci?n de Fidel Castro". Ensayos sobre Judaismo Latinoamericano, Mila Buenos Aires 1990, pp. 173-184.

11. (a) "The Cuban Jewish Community Today", Jerusalem Letter, 16 December 1990, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

(b) "The Jewish Community of Cuba between Continuity and Extinction", Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol, 3, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring 1991, pp. 114-140.

12. "La inmigraci?n a Cuba y la pol?tica migratoria de los Estados Unidos", E.I.A.L., Vol. 4, No. 2, Universidad de tel Aviv, Julio-Diciembre 1993, pp. 113-128.

13. (a) "The Cuban Jewish Community in South Florida", Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 1994, Division B Volume III, pp. 131-138 (An expanded version will be published in Judaica Latinoamericana III, Jerusalem 1997).

(b) "From Havana to Miami, The Cuban Jewish Community", Judaica Latinnoamericana, III, Jerusalem 1997, pp. 113-130.

14. "La Quinta Columna en Cuba (1936-1942)", Reflejos, no. 3, diciembre de 1994, Universidad Hebrea, Jerusalem.

15. "L'int?gration des Sefardim en Am?rique Latine: le cas des comunaut?s de Buenos Aires et de la Havane", M?moires juives d'Espagne et du Portugal, Esther Benbassa (Ed.), PUBLISUD, Paris 1996, pp. 207-219.

16. "Constitutional Documents of Jewish Sephardic Organizations in Latin America", Jewish Political Studies Review, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 8 (3-4), Fall 1996, pp. 127-148.

17. "Bistritzky en Cuba: Su influencia sobre la estructuraci?n del Keren Kayemet Leisrael y su actividad pol?tica entre los cubanos," to be published in the Proceedings of the LAJSA Conference held in Mexico City in November 1995.

18. "De Turqu?a a Latinoamerica. Inmigraci?n de jud?os sefarad?es a Argentina e Cuba", Sefardica, 11, Septiembre de 1996, pp. 113-125.


Subjects of conferences and travel plans for 1998-99:

I hope to spend the first two weeks of September 1998 in Cuba, and to participate in the Conference of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association in Princeton University, during the third week of March 1999.

Subjects of possible conferences (Hebrew, English or Spanish):

Immigration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and the development of Sephardic Communities.

History of the Jewish Community of Cuba - from 1989 to the Castro revolution; the Jewish community under Castro; the Cuban-Jewish exile.

History of the St, Louis affair from a Cuban perspective; the problem of Jewish refugees in Cuba during the Holocaust.

Oral history - methodological problems.