CROWN FAMILY CENTER FOR JEWISH AND ISRAEL STUDIES

Shai Zamir is the Sava Ranisavljevic Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies. He is a historian of the early modern Iberian world and specializes in the history of the family and immigration, Jewish and Sephardi histories, and religious polemics. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and MA from Tel Aviv University where he studied in the Adi Lautman Program for Outstanding Students. He also spent a year at Hadar Yeshivah in Manhattan studying Talmud. He currently works on two projects: a book manuscript on the social and cultural history of friendship in the early modern Iberian world, and essay-long studies of Jews and New Christians in less studied parts of the Spanish empire. His work was supported by the American Historical Association; Center for Jewish History; John Carter Brown Library; Yad ha-Nadiv Foundation; Casa de Velázquez and other institutions.