Dr. phil. Allyson Gonzalez

Assoziiertes Mitglied / Kollegium Jüdische Studien
Allyson Gonzalez (Brandeis University, Ph.D.; University of Chicago, M.A.) is an affiliate fellow at the Selma Stern Center in Berlin, having recently served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Potsdam, sponsored by the Brandenburg Network. A former U.S. Fulbright Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as a former Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Mexico, Gonzalez has taught at Yale University, where she served as the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Fellow, as well as at Florida State University and Brandeis University. A former Pulitzer Prize finalist as the lead writer of a newspaper team, Gonzalez was the co-recipient of the New Voices in Jewish Studies award from Fordham and Columbia University in 2018. Her scholarly publications and translations have appeared in peer-reviewed venues like the Jewish Quarterly Review, Stanford University Press, as well as the Italian-based Quest: Contemporary Issues in Jewish History. She is currently revising a book-length manuscript and beginning work on a new project.
- Allyson Gonzalez, “In Search of a Missing Editor: Españoles sin patria after Ángel Pulido. Sephardic Jews on a Habsburg Faultline and the Challenge of Micca Gross Alcalay (1865–1905),” Jewish Culture and History (2025): 1-20. *Part of the University of Halle’s conference, Local Knowledge Production and Translocal Connectedness – Sephardic Entanglements of Movement and Space* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1462169X.2025.2577063
- Allyson Gonzalez and Roberta Mock, “Introduction,” Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry, special volume on Jews, Gender, and Performance, organized by Golan Moskowitz, Tulane University (forthcoming, 2025/2026)
- Allyson Gonzalez, “Theaters of Citizenship: Conversos, Jews, and Modern Spain,” A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry, special volume on Jews, Gender, and Performance, organized by Golan Moskowitz, Tulane University (forthcoming, 2025/2026)
- Allyson Gonzalez and Mostafa Hussein (co-authors), “The Yahuda Brothers: Dynamic Networks, Family Obligations, and the Modern Transfer of Culture and Knowledge,” in A. S. Yahuda as Cultural Broker: Between Near Eastern Philology and the Manuscript Trade, eds. Marina Rustow, Stephanie Luescher, and Samuel Thorpe (DeGruyter, forthcoming 2025/2026)
- Arie Dubnow, Michal Friedman, Allyson Gonzalez (equal co-authors), “The Zionist Trajectories of A.S. Yahuda,” in A. S. Yahuda as Cultural Broker: Between Near Eastern Philology and the Manuscript Trade, eds. Marina Rustow, Stephanie Luescher, and Samuel Thorpe (DeGruyter, forthcoming 2025/2026)
- Allyson Gonzalez, “Rabbinic Diplomacy in Cold War Spain: Solomon Gaon (1912-1994) and the Origins of a Ladino Blessing,” in Mizmor leDavid: Studies in Jewish Languages [Festschrift in Honor of David Bunis], eds. Ora Rodrigue Schwarzwald, Katja Smid, and Ofra Tirosh-Becker (Madrid, Spain: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2024), ISBN: 978-84-00-11183-0. http://libros.csic.es/product_info.php?products_id=1767
- Allyson Gonzalez, “The Quincentennial of 1992: Scholarship and the Transnational Commemorations of the Jewish Expulsion from Spain – Beyond the ‘Sephardic Mystique,’” in Sephardic History Beyond Europe, eds., Jonathan Hirsch, Sina Rauschenbach, Carsten Schapkow (Berlin: Jahrbuch, Selma Stern Zentrum, Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg/Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, 2023), 100-119. ISBN: 978-3-95565-635-5. https://www.hentrichhentrich.de/buch-sephardic-history-beyond-europe.html
- Allyson Gonzalez, “Modern Conversos and the Performance of Sephardi Citizenship in Spain,” Tulane University Grant Center for the Jewish Experience, Jewish Gender, Drag, and Performance Working Group, December 2022, https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/americanjewishexperience/research-initiatives/gender-performance-drag
- Allyson Gonzalez, “A History of Histories—of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Exchange: A.S. Yahuda and the International Trade of Antiquities, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, 1902-1944,” Quest: Contemporary Issues in Jewish History 18 (December 2020): 34-65. DOI : https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/11285
- Allyson Gonzalez, “Abraham S. Yahuda (1877-1951) and the Politics of Modern Jewish Scholarship,” Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 109, No. 3 (summer 2019): 406-433. https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2019.0017
- Allyson Gonzalez, “The First Modern Syllabus,” Jewish Quarterly Review [JQR blog, October 2019; Spanish-to-English annotated translation] https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/blog/jewish-quarterly-review/first-modern-syllabus-s-yahuda-university-madrid
- Allyson Gonzalez, “A.S. Yahuda and Wissenschaft des Judentums: A Conversation,” Jewish Quarterly Review [JQR blog, October 2019; a dialogue with forum co-organizer Michal Friedman]. See https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/blog/jewish-quarterly-review/why-yahuda-why-forum-why-wissenschaft-issue-conversation-between
- Allyson Gonzalez, “Semblanza de Rebecca Arié (1889-1980),” Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI) - EDI-RED. This is the first piece published on the most prominent Sephardi publisher of the 20th century. Project sponsored by the Centro Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes in Spain. Online text available at http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obras/materia-autoridad/arie-behar-rebecca-81980
- Allyson Gonzalez, “Finding a Place for the Past: Sephardic Reconfigurations of Spain and Palestine (1914-1968),” dissertation, Brandeis University, August 2015 (co-winner of the Nahum and Anne Glatzer Endowed Prize, May 2016)
- Allyson Gonzalez, “Teaching Hebrew in Madrid (1949),” Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950, eds. Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, (Stanford University, 2014), 425-428 [Hebrew to English translation] https://www.academia.edu/40746372/Yahuda_Teaching_Hebrew_in_Madrid_Hebrew_to_English_translation_
