Silvina Schammah Gesser
Biographic Data
| ID | 638883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvina Schammah Gesser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvina Schammah |
| FAMILY NAME | Gesser |
| SIGNATURE | GESSER S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2449-8996 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Converso Traits in Spanish Baroque
Some of Spain's greatest humanists-Juan Luis Vives, Antonio de Nebrija, Juan de Ávila, Luis de León, and Benito Arias Montano-were from a converso background. Recent scholarship suggests that two of the three most influential religious movements in sixteenth-century Spain-Juan de Ávila's evangelical movement and Teresa of Ávila's Barefoot Carmelites-were founded by conversos and presented converso membership, whose winds of religious innovation t…
Virtually Sephardic? The Marketing and Reception of the New Iberian Laws of Nationality in Israel
The relations between Iberia and its Sephardic diasporas have undergone innumerable reversals and revivals as Spain and Portugal experienced processes of nation-state building. These relations reached a climax with the 2015 New Nationality Laws for Sephardic Jews, that allow them to become Portuguese or Spanish citizens. Given an unexcepted worldwide interest, the governments provided different redefinitions of the criteria of the process. Initia…
The politics of display in post-Franco Spain
The political significance of museums and commemorative exhibitions in post-Franco Spain has been comparatively little explored. By elaborating on the new critical literature on museums and the debate on the notion of governmentality developed by Michel Foucault, this article draws attention to the institutional rationale at work in the birthday centennials of key Spanish artists and literati of the Silver Age celebrated at the turn of the millen…
Legado cultural y administración del pasado
La necesidad de fortalecer la nueva imagen de la España democrática, dar expresión a las regiones y rehabilitar el legado cultural anterior a la Guerra Civil han favorecido el desarrollo de infraestructuras museológicas a nivel nacional, regional y local. En estos nuevos espacios de exhibición, las conmemoraciones —en especial aquellas que reivindican el legado cultural de las vanguardias artísticas y literarias anteriores al conflicto— se han tr…
"Making it" in Israel? Latino Undocumented Migrant Workers in the Holy Land
Every Saturday evening, hundreds of persons gather at a religious service in a Catholic church where a weekly mass is conducted in Spanish by a Franciscan priest. Many of the churchgoers actively participate, reading passages from the New Testament, singing in the choir, or playing instruments. Melodies of Latin American folk music are played intermittently, breaking the solemnity of the religious ritual. Two important aspects make this event uni…
Contesting the limits of political participation
The article addresses the significance of migrant associations and of their participatory practices as a vehicle by which migrant workers become political actors and negotiate membership in Israel. We offer a comparative analysis of black African and Latin American undocumented migrant communities to suggest the very fact that they manage to organize in autonomous associations in order to protect their interests, have the ability to mobilize supp…
Undocumented In L. A
This book tells the story of the immigration to the United States of a Nicaraguan woman, a Sandinista activist from Esteli, who fled her home town in order to join relatives in Los Angeles.The commitment of the rural population of Esteli to the Revolution is underscored by the fact that they were among the first to join the insurrectionist movement against the dictatorship of Somoza. To this day, the image of the campesinoswarding off an attack b…
Contesting the limits of political participation
The article addresses the significance of migrant associations and of their participatory practices as a vehicle by which migrant workers become political actors and negotiate membership in Israel. We offer a comparative analysis of black African and Latin American undocumented migrant communities to suggest the very fact that they manage to organize in autonomous associations in order to protect their interests, have the ability to mobilize supp…
Virtually Sephardic? The Marketing and Reception of the New Iberian Laws of Nationality in Israel
The relations between Iberia and its Sephardic diasporas have undergone innumerable reversals and revivals as Spain and Portugal experienced processes of nation-state building. These relations reached a climax with the 2015 New Nationality Laws for Sephardic Jews, that allow them to become Portuguese or Spanish citizens. Given an unexcepted worldwide interest, the governments provided different redefinitions of the criteria of the process. Initia…
Undocumented In L. A
This book tells the story of the immigration to the United States of a Nicaraguan woman, a Sandinista activist from Esteli, who fled her home town in order to join relatives in Los Angeles.The commitment of the rural population of Esteli to the Revolution is underscored by the fact that they were among the first to join the insurrectionist movement against the dictatorship of Somoza. To this day, the image of the campesinoswarding off an attack b…
"Making it" in Israel? Latino Undocumented Migrant Workers in the Holy Land
Every Saturday evening, hundreds of persons gather at a religious service in a Catholic church where a weekly mass is conducted in Spanish by a Franciscan priest. Many of the churchgoers actively participate, reading passages from the New Testament, singing in the choir, or playing instruments. Melodies of Latin American folk music are played intermittently, breaking the solemnity of the religious ritual. Two important aspects make this event uni…
Contesting the limits of political participation
The article addresses the significance of migrant associations and of their participatory practices as a vehicle by which migrant workers become political actors and negotiate membership in Israel. We offer a comparative analysis of black African and Latin American undocumented migrant communities to suggest the very fact that they manage to organize in autonomous associations in order to protect their interests, have the ability to mobilize supp…
Legado cultural y administración del pasado
La necesidad de fortalecer la nueva imagen de la España democrática, dar expresión a las regiones y rehabilitar el legado cultural anterior a la Guerra Civil han favorecido el desarrollo de infraestructuras museológicas a nivel nacional, regional y local. En estos nuevos espacios de exhibición, las conmemoraciones —en especial aquellas que reivindican el legado cultural de las vanguardias artísticas y literarias anteriores al conflicto— se han tr…
The politics of display in post-Franco Spain
The political significance of museums and commemorative exhibitions in post-Franco Spain has been comparatively little explored. By elaborating on the new critical literature on museums and the debate on the notion of governmentality developed by Michel Foucault, this article draws attention to the institutional rationale at work in the birthday centennials of key Spanish artists and literati of the Silver Age celebrated at the turn of the millen…
Virtually Sephardic? The Marketing and Reception of the New Iberian Laws of Nationality in Israel
The relations between Iberia and its Sephardic diasporas have undergone innumerable reversals and revivals as Spain and Portugal experienced processes of nation-state building. These relations reached a climax with the 2015 New Nationality Laws for Sephardic Jews, that allow them to become Portuguese or Spanish citizens. Given an unexcepted worldwide interest, the governments provided different redefinitions of the criteria of the process. Initia…
Converso Traits in Spanish Baroque
Some of Spain's greatest humanists-Juan Luis Vives, Antonio de Nebrija, Juan de Ávila, Luis de León, and Benito Arias Montano-were from a converso background. Recent scholarship suggests that two of the three most influential religious movements in sixteenth-century Spain-Juan de Ávila's evangelical movement and Teresa of Ávila's Barefoot Carmelites-were founded by conversos and presented converso membership, whose winds of religious innovation t…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works)