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Biography
Joanna Zofia Spyra is a historian 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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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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
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Jewish Prostitution in the Archives: Reflections on Stigma, Access, and Anonymization
Spyra, J. Z., 1 Jul 2025, In: Journal of Jewish Identities. 18, 2, p. 307-332 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › 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: 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: 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
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