Ruth Fine is Salomon and Victoria Cohen Professor in Iberian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her fields of expertise are semiotics, literary theory and Iberian literatures and cultures, areas in which she has published books and articles.

Ruth Fine acts as the Head of the Literary Trend of the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, Honorary President of the AIH (Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas), Honorary President of the Israeli Association of Hispanists and President of the AC (Asociación Internacional de Cervantistas). She was awarded the "Orden del Mérito Civil" by Spain for her contribution to Spanish culture.

In 2016 she was elected corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española).

In 2019 she received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Navarra.

Research Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Literature and Medicine; Cultural Representations of Madness; The Semitic Heritage of the Iberian Peninsula in Early Modernity; Converso and Morisco Literature.

Or Hasson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University (2015). Before joining the Department faculty, Or spent time as a Rothschild and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; a Mandel Fellow at the Mandel Scholion Center at the Hebrew University; and an Arnod Fellow at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. 

His research is dedicated, among other things, to the representation of madness in early modern Spanish literature; medical writing and its dialogue with contemporary literary fiction; converso and morisco Golden Age literature; and the Semitic—Arabic and Hebrew—heritage of the Iberian Peninsula and its place in early modern Hispanic thinking, memory, and imagination. 

On sabbatical until March 31, 2026 before leaving the Hebrew University

Research Interests: Spanish linguistics, History of the Ibero-Romance languages, sociolinguistics, language variation, Sephardic Studies and Ladino

As a specialist in Spanish philology, Ibero-romance languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), her research and teaching focus on historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, language variation, and endangered languages. With an M.A. (a seven-year degree) from the Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD from the Hebrew University, she was a research fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) before joining the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies in 2009. Among her publications is the book Geografía lingüística del judeoespañol: estudio sincrónico y diacrónico. Completed projects: The Sephardim - Through Their Own Eyes and Their Relationship with the Spanish Language I (Spanish Ministry of Science and Development, Grants SB2006-0005 and JCI-2008-2348), From Old Spanish to Judeo-Spanish: Formation of New Linguistic Varieties Not Subjected to Standardizing Pressure in the Context of Migration (16th-17th Centuries) (La Lettre Sepharade and the Israel Sciences Foundation, Grant 473/11), Traditional Judeo-Spanish (18th-19th Centuries), according to the Series Meam loez (ISF 486/19). Her current research is A Descriptive Grammar of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) (ISF 1505/24), along with the projects CoDiAJe - The Annotated Diachronic Corpus of Judeo-Spanish, CoOrAJe - The Annotated Oral Corpus of Judeo-Spanish, and Civic Responses after Terror Attacks in Europe: Language, Communication and Society.

Since November 12, 2015, Prof. Aldina Quintana has been a corresponding academician of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) for Israel.

Research Interests: Early modern Spain; colonial Latin America; the history of the family, sexuality, and kinship; Jewish-Christian relations; the Inquisition in Spain and the Americas; Sephardi history.

Dr. Shai Zamir is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. His research and teaching focus on the history of the early modern Iberian world with particular attention to family and kinship structures and the experiences of religious minorities.

Zamir earned his PhD in History from the University of Michigan. He also holds an MA (with distinction) in History from Tel Aviv University. Prior to joining the Hebrew University, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, and later a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the Harper Schmidt Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago.

His scholarship has appeared in Colonial Latin American Review, Journal of Early Modern History, and Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. Zamir’s current book project, Intimate Enemies and Absent Friends: Alternative Kinship in the Early Modern Iberian World (working title), examines the political and social dimensions of friendship in the Spanish Empire, particularly in the context of migration.

Research Interests: Contemporary Latin American Literature and Literary Theory.

Born in Argentina, Daniel Blaustein has been living in Israel since 1987. He is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has taught, among others: “Main trends in Spanish Literature”, “Readings in Literary Criticism” and “Contemporary Latin American Fiction”. He is also lecturer in the Department of Literature, TelAvivUniversity. His main areas of interest include Literary Theories and Criticism and Contemporary Latin American Narrative. He has translated several books and articles on literary criticism and Jewish History. 

Research Interests: Sociocultural shifts in Contemporary Latin American History, Tech Private technologies in Contemporary Latin America, Private sector and Diasporas; Latin America in Global History. His ongoing research delves into the contemporary technological history of Latin America, emphasizing an often-overlooked element: the market education strategies employed by foreign tech companies.

Mauricio Dimant was the Convener of the LATAM Innovation and Entrepreneurship Club at the Hebrew University, Coordinator of the Latin American Unit at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Academic Mentor for the Internship Undergraduate Program in Latin American Studies, and a Co-Coordinator of Latin American Studies at the 12th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium organized by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Co-Coordinator of Research at the European Association of Latin American History (AHILA), Member of the Academic Committee of the Pontifical Foundation Scholas Occurrentes (The Holly See), and Editing Assistant for Revista Política y Sociedad, Complutense University of Madrid.
His research has been published in Contemporary Jewry, Israel Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Horizontes Antropológicos, Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, among others. He received the "Order of Educational and Cultural Merit Gabriela Mistral" by the Chilean government.

Research Interests: The works of Cervantes; Iberian frontier literature during the Middle Ages; the symbiosis of Counter Reformation art and Spanish Golden Age drama; Comparative Baroque literature; Heterodox and converso thought and literature
Supervisor: Prof. Ruth Fine

Ruth Fine is Salomon and Victoria Cohen Professor in Iberian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her fields of expertise are semiotics, literary theory and Iberian literatures and cultures, areas in which she has published books and articles.

Ruth Fine acts as the Head of the Literary Trend of the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, Honorary President of the AIH (Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas), Honorary President of the Israeli Association of Hispanists and President of the AC (Asociación Internacional de Cervantistas). She was awarded the "Orden del Mérito Civil" by Spain for her contribution to Spanish culture.

In 2016 she was elected corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española).

In 2019 she received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Navarra.

Research Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Literature and Medicine; Cultural Representations of Madness; The Semitic Heritage of the Iberian Peninsula in Early Modernity; Converso and Morisco Literature.

Or Hasson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University (2015). Before joining the Department faculty, Or spent time as a Rothschild and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; a Mandel Fellow at the Mandel Scholion Center at the Hebrew University; and an Arnod Fellow at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. 

His research is dedicated, among other things, to the representation of madness in early modern Spanish literature; medical writing and its dialogue with contemporary literary fiction; converso and morisco Golden Age literature; and the Semitic—Arabic and Hebrew—heritage of the Iberian Peninsula and its place in early modern Hispanic thinking, memory, and imagination. 

Research Interests: Middle Eastern Migration to Latin America, History of Colombia, Diplomatic History, Cultural Diplomacy.
Scholarship: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Scholarship Program 2021-2022.
Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kedar

Reseach Interests: Sephardic Studies, Communal regulations, Ladino
Supervisor:  Prof. Aldina Quintana

Supervisor: Prof. Ruth Fine

Supervisor: Prof. Ruth Fine

Supervisor: Prof. Claudia Kedar

Research Interests: Contemporary Argentinian Literature, Trauma Studies
Supervisor: Prof. Ruth Fine

Research Interests: The works of Cervantes; Iberian frontier literature during the Middle Ages; the symbiosis of Counter Reformation art and Spanish Golden Age drama; Comparative Baroque literature; Heterodox and converso thought and literature
Supervisor: Prof. Ruth Fine

Supervisor: Prof. Ruth Fine

Supervisors: Dr. Or Hasson, Prof. Ruth Fine, and Prof. Teresa Calvente Jiménez (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)

Supervisor: Prof. Ruth Fine

Supervisors: Prof. Ruth Fine and Dr. Or Hasson

Prof. Yohanan Bar Yafe Szemiñski (Jan Szemiñski) is an Ethno-historian, specialized in Andean (Inca) oral tradition, history of the Inca Empire, and colonial history of the Inca. His current research includes the geographical limits of the Inca world, the use of Andean languages as a historical source for cultural changes from the 15th to the 20th century, and the construction of a colonial Quechua database (at the present it includes 102,000 items).

Prof. Solotorevsky is a lecturer at the Iberian and Latin American Section. This year she teaches the M.A. course "2666 by Roberto Bolaño". Her research areas include: Contemporary Latin-American literature and literary theory; the relation between literature and paraliterature; the relation between the "world" and "writing"; ontological and epistemological issues related to the literary text.