Research

Margarita Lerman

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Affiliated Researcher; PhD Candidate

lerman(at)dubnow.de

Working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a PhD Candidate, funded by the Rotenstreich Scholarship since 2024, and at the Dubnow Institute as an Affiliated Researcher since 2021.

Studied Translation, Conference Interpreting, and European Studies at the universities of Concepción, Havana, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Leipzig University and completed her M. A. degree in Conference Interpreting (2019) as well as European Studies (2021). Subject of the Master’s thesis in Conference Interpreting: »“La justa causa de los pueblos árabes”. The Israeli Question in Cuban Perspective, 1959–1973.« Subject of the Master’s thesis in European Studies: »Migration and Moral. Jewish Procurers in Fin de Siècle Galicia.« From 2016 to 2021 Academic Assistant in the Editorial Department. Scholarship from Heinrich Böll Foundation from 2013 to 2017.

Dissertation Project

Between Loopholes and Gray Areas. A Transnational History of Illegal Jewish Networks in the 19th Century

Research Interests

  • Jewish-Cuban and Israeli-Cuban History
  • Historical Migration Studies
  • History of Crime

Publications

Essays and Articles

Patria o Muerte im Nahen Osten – Der Junikrieg aus kubanischer Perspektive, in: Lennard Schmidt et al (eds.),Antisemitismus zwischen Kontinuität und Adaptivität. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Geschichte, Aktualität und Prävention, Göttingen 2022, 227–242.

»An Ideal Picture of the Jew?« Jewish Responses to Vice in 1910s New York City, in: Mimeo. Blog der Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden am Dubnow-Institut [Weblog], 26 July 2022.

Kubas schwieriges Verhältnis zu Israel. Antizionismus als außenpolitische Agenda?, in: Geschichte der Gegenwart, 18 October 2020.