Silvina Schammah Gesser

Silvina Schammah Gesser is a member of the Salti Institute of the Study of Ladino at Bar Ilan University and a researcher at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She specializes in early 20th-century Spanish history and culture, with a focus on the political discourse of the avant–garde, as well as the recovery of the cultural legacy of the Second Spanish Republic in democratic Spain. Her interests include memory, migration, and exile in Spain and Argentina, as well as the return of the Jewish presence in Iberia. Her publications include Jewish (In)Visibility in Iberia: A View from the Margins, in Contemporary Jewry (2021), her study on the Converso traits in Spanish Baroque and the figure of Teresa of Ávila appearing in Religions, and her articles published by Brill and Ladinar (2025) focusing on the work and trajectory of the Argentine Sephardic playwright, Ricardo Halac, on whom she is writing an intellectual biography. Her book, Madrid's Forgotten Avant–Garde: Between Essentialism and Modernity, published by Sussex Academic Press, is now being translated into Spanish.