Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Joanna Zofia Spyra is a historian and researcher working on the Claims Conference-funded project Trawniki: Nexus of the Final Solution led by Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls and based at the Centre of Archaeology, University of Huddersfield.
Joanna Zofia is completing her PhD in history at the University of Bergen, Norway, focusing on the intersection of sexuality, health, and philanthropy in 1930s Argentina. She earned degrees from Jagiellonian University and Cracow University of Economics, as well as a Master’s in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Jewish Studies
- Jewish history
- Holocaust studies
- Latin American history
- Argentine history
- Oral history
- Yiddish studies
- Gender studies
- Sexuality studies
- Transnational history
- Migration studies
- Polish history
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Research output
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Book review: International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War. By Jaclyn Granick. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 404. £29.99. ISBN 9781108860697
Spyra, J. Z., 29 Dec 2022, In: Jewish History. 36, 3-4, p. 375-378 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review
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Book review: The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation by Amy K. Kaminsky
Spyra, J. Z., 1 Oct 2022, In: Nashim. 41, 5783, p. 139-141 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review
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Book review: Mariusz Kalczewiak, Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture. (University of Alabama Press, 2020). 320 pp. $49.95
Spyra, J. Z., 31 Jan 2022, In: In geveb: A journal of Yiddish studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review
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Book review: Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, And Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800 – 1939 by Natan M. Meir
Spyra, J. Z., 1 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Jewish Identities. 14, 2, p. 254-256 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review
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Book review: Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina. By Mir Yarfitz. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. xi + 207 pp.
Spyra, J. Z., 1 Apr 2020, In: American Jewish History. 104, 2/3, p. 480-482 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review › peer-review
Press/Media
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Argentine Jewish History: Insights from Israeli Archives in H-LatAm (H-Net Network on Latin American History), Research Corner
29/06/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Navigating Jewish Archives in Argentina in H-LatAm (H-Net Network on Latin American History), Research Corner
9/06/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Hvem vil lese Pippi på jiddisch? (Who wants to read Pippi in Yiddish?)
19/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities