Bio
Dr. Shai Zamir 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. In addition to his history background, he also spent a year studying Talmud at Hadar Yeshivah in Manhattan. 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.
Publications
- “New-Christian Friendships and Spaces of Sociability in the Early Modern Spanish City,” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 24.3 (2023): 321-337.
- “Debating Friendship in Seventeenth-Century Lima, 1678-1681”, Colonial Latin American Review 32.3 (2023): 414-438.