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Prof. Dr. Judit Bokser-Liwerant
Judit Bokser Liwerant is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM).
She has been appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, 2013.
BA and Master Studies in Political Science and Sociology- The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
Phd summa cum laude, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Professor Bokser Liwerant has lived in Mexico since
1968.
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Member of the Mexican Academy of Science, since 1999.
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Member of the National Research System (Fellowship at highest level) since 1991.
She is the Director and Editor of the Mexican Journal of Political and Social Science.
Co-editor of the Brill Book Series on Jewish Identities in a Changing World, BostonLeiden (2009-present).
Full Senior Professor of Political Science, at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico (UNAM) since 1985.
Head of the Graduate School of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM, 1996- 2012
Coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program, Universidad Iberoamericana-International
Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, Jerusalem 1980-1995.
She has been Visiting Professor at several national and international universities, including:
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO); San Martin University, Argentina;
Beatty Chair, McGill University, Canada; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris; Eckstein Scholar in Residence, Arizona State University; San Martin Chair and The
Institute of Advanced Studies, at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Maison des
Sciences de L’Homme.
Her work spans across different disciplinary fields and research areas, ranging from
political theory and political sociology to Contemporary Jewry. Her lines of research have
focused on Jewish responses to Modernity; Jewish identities in Latin America; antiSemitism; pluralism and multiculturalism; citizenship and collective identities; Jewish
identities and gender perspectives; globalization processes; diaspora studies and
transnationalism.
Her academic production has also focused on the field of anti-Semitism, racism and human
rights. She has combined her academic work with policy contributions within the
framework of the activities of the Citizens’ Study Commission Against Discrimination, the
Human Rights Commission and the National Council to Prevent Discrimination.
She has authored and edited 14 books and more than 160 scientific articles and chapters .
Books:
Historia del Movimiento Nacional Judío,(History of the Jewish National Movement) Antología,
Edición Exp., México, Universidad Iberoamericana y el Centro para los Estudios Universitarios de
la Cultura Judía, 1984.
El Movimiento Nacional Judío. El sionismo en México 1922-1947. (The Jewish National
Movement. Zionism in Mexico 1922-1947) UNAM, 1991.
Imágenes de un Encuentro. La Presencia Judía en México durante la primera mitad del siglo XX,
(Images of an Encounter. The Jewish Presence in Mexico During the First Half of the 20 Century
México, UNAM, Comité Central Israelita, MBM, 1991.
Estado Actual de la Ciencia Política, (Political Science Today) Coordinadora, Colegio Nacional de
Ciencia Política, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Instituto Federal Electoral, 1997.
Encuentro y Alteridad. La vida y la cultura judía en América Latina, (Encounter and Otherness.
Jewish Life and Culture in Latin America), en colaboración con Alicia Backal, Editoras y estudio
introductorio, Fondo de Cultura Económica, UNAM, Universidad de Tel Aviv , Universidad de
Jerusalén, 1999.
Léxico de la Política, (Political Lexicon ), en colaboración con Isidro Cisneros, Laura Baca,
Germán Pérez, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000.
Agendas de Investigación y Docencia en Ciencia Política, (Research Agendas in Political
Science) Coordinadora, Colegio Nacional de Ciencia Política, UNAM, UAM, 1999.
Las Ciencias Sociales, Universidad y Sociedad, (Social Sciences, University and Society),
Coordinadora, Introductory Study, UNAM, 2003.
The Middle East Conflict, ( with Felipe Pozo, Eds. ) , Universidad Hebraica, 2006.
Jewish Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism (Edit., with Eliezer Ben Rafael et
al) Brill Editorial, 2008.
Sociedad, Política e Identidades (Society, Politics and Identities), Mexico, UNAM,( 2009);
Transnationalism (Edit., with Eliezer Ben Rafael et al,) Brill Editorial, 2009.
Pensar la Globalización, la Democracia y la Diversidad (On Globalization, Democracy and
Diversity, México, UNAM; 2009.
Pertenencia y alteridad. Judíos en/de América Latina: cuarenta años de cambios (Belonging and
Otherness. Jews in/of Latin America: forty years of changes) (Edit., with Haim Avni, et al), Madrid,
Iberoamericana, 2011
Reconsidering Israel-Diaspora Relations, Boston and Leiden: Brill, ( ED. with Eliezer Ben Rafael
and Yosi Gorni, 2015.
El Educador Judío Latinoamericano en un Mundo Transnacional, (Latin American Jewish
Educators in a Transnational World), with Sergio DellaPergola, Leonardo Senkman and Yossi
Goldstein, Jerusalem- Mexico, Bonilla y Artigas, 2015.
Community, Society and Politics. Past and Present Paths of Latin American Jews (in process).
Selected articles and chapters
"Parsons y Dahl: dos tentativas de confinar la realidad política” (Parsons and Dahl: Two
Formalyzing Approaches to Politics) , Estudios Políticos, N° 2, México, F.C.P y S.,1975, pp. 65-83.
"Reencontrando identidad. Apuntes metodológicos para el estudio de los judíos en América
Latina"( Encounters with Identity. Methodological Notes on Jews in Latin America) Secuencia, N°
13, Revista Americana de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Mora, México, 1989, pp. 207-215.
"Estado actual de la Ciencia Política"(Political Science: the State of the Art), Revista Mexicana de
Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, N° 136-137, F.C.P.yS., México, abril-septiembre de 1989, pp. 43-50.
"El movimiento sionista y México frente a la creación del Estado de Israel", (Zionism and Mexican
Society vis-a-vis the Establishment of the State of Israel) Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress
of Jewish Studies, Jerusalén, 1990, pp. 543-550.
Zionism and its Struggle with the Left. Zionism and Its Opponents. The Srtuggle for Hegemony in
the Jewish World, Jerusalem, Magness Press, 1990, pp. 191-203 [Hebrew].
Judaísmo, Modernización y Democracia en México (Judaism, Modernization and Democracy), en
Religión, Iglesias y Democracia en México, Roberto Blancarte, editor, UNAM, CIICH-La
Jornada, 1995, pp. 265-291.
"Los Judíos en México. Entre el exilio y la inmigración"(Jews in Mexico: Between Immigration and
Exile), Anuario del Instituto de Investigaciones Interculturales Germano-Mexicanas, Vol. II, No. 3
y 4, México, 1991.
“De la Guerra a la Paz en el Medio Oriente: política, economía y cultura” (From War to Peace in
the Middle East: politics, economy and culture), Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales,
UNAM, vol. 159, pp. 53-72, 1995.
"Etica y diversidad: el desafío de la sociedad civil" (Ethics and Diversity: Civil Society’s
Challenge) , Estudios, No. 42, México, ITAM, 1995, pp.31-49 .
“Cárdenas y los Judíos: entre el exilio y la inmigración" (Cardenas and the Jews: Exile and
Immigration), en Canadian Journal Of Latin American and Caribbbean Studies, Vol 20, No. 39-40,
Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Canadá, 1996, pp. 13-38.
“Los rostros del Antisemitismo”, (The Faces of Antisemitism) Coloquio, vol 27, Buenos Aires,
1996, pp. 33-45.
“Juan Pablo II y México: reflexiones en torno a los encuentros”( John Paul II and Mexico:
Reflections on their encounters), Religiones y Sociedad, N. 5, México, enero-abril 1999, pp. 9-20.
“El Ghetto: historia y memoria” (The Ghetto: History and Memory), en colaboración con Gilda
Waldman, Acta Sociológica, noviembre 1999, FCPYS, UNAM, pp. 55-86.
Mexico and Palestine’s Partititon: Society, Politics and Diplomacy(Hebrew), en Zvi Medin y
Raanan Reins Mexico After the Revolution, Eds. México, Universidad de Tel Aviv, Israel,
1999, pp. 235-262.
Teoría Política (Political Theory), en Léxico de la Política, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica,
2000, pp. 717-726
The Six Day War and its Impact on the Mexican Jewish Community, Universidad Hebrea de
Jerusalén, en Eli Lederhendler (ed.)The Six Day War and World Jewry, University Press of
Maryland, 2000, pp. 187-204.
De-legitimation of the Jewish Presence. Mexico’s Vote Zionsim=Racism, Latin American Judaism,
A Book in Honor of Haim Avni, (Hebrew) Jerusalem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
AMILAT, 2001, pp.160-184.
“El Antisemitismo: recurrencias y cambios históricos”(Antisemitism: persistence and historical
change), Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, N. 182-1831, mayo-diciembre 2001,
pp. 101-132
“Globalization and Collective Identities”, Social Compass 49(2), 2002.
“Modernidad y Holocausto. Algunas reflexiones críticas en torno a Bauman” (Modernity and
Holocaust. Critical Reflections on Bauman), con Gilda Waldman, Acta Sociológica, N.35, mayoagosto 2002, pp. 31-60.
“The Middle East: Between War and Peace”, Journal of American Studies, Jesús Velazco (ed.),
Turquía, 2005.
“El Antisemitismo en la historia” (Antisemitism in History) en Bien Común, N. 107, noviembre
2003, pp. 36-54.
“La cuestión judía hoy: del ¿socialismo de los tontos? A la recurrencia del prejuicio”, (The Jewsih
Question Today)Metapolítica, septiembre 2004, 212-219.
“El Holocausto: memoria, víctimas y moralidad. Un acercamiento a Zygmunt Bauman”,(The
Holocaust: Memory, Victims and Morality. On Zygmunt Bauman) Madrid, Anthropos, N.206,
2005, pp.168-183.
Libertades religiosas en México hoy(Religious Freedom in Mexico Today), en Ética y Reforma del
Estado en México en Tiempos de la Democracia”, Universidad Pontificia, México, 2003
El lugar cambiante de Israel en la comunidad judía de México: centralidad y procesos de
globalización (The Changing Place of Israel in theJewish Community of Mexico: centrality and
globalization processes), Judaica Latinoamericana V, Jerusalem, Magness Press-AMILAT, 2005,
pp. 185-208.
Poder Político y ética pública (Political Power and Public Ethics), UNAM, Facultad de Derecho,
Serie Estudios, 2005
Semitas en el espacio público mexicano (Semites in the Mexican Public Sphere), en Ignacio Klich,
ed. Arabes y Judíos en América Latina, Siglo Veintiuno, Bs. As., 2006.
Globalización, diversidad y pluralismo (Globalization, Diversity and Pluralism), en
Diversidad y Multicutluralismo-Perspectivas y Desafíos, Daniel Gutiérrez M. (coord.), Siglo
Veintiuno- UNAM, 2006.
El México de los años Treinta: Cardenismo, Inmigración Judía y Antisemitismo (Mexico During the
Thirties: Jewsih Immigration and Antisemitism), en Xenofobias y Xenofilia en la historia de México
siglos XVIII y XIX, Dirección de Estudios Históricos
Identidades colectivas y esfera pública: judíos y libaneses en México (Collective Idnetities and
Public Sphere: Jews and Arabs in Mexico) en Raanan Rein (Editor) Árabes y Judíos en el
Iberoamérica, Fundación Tres Culturas, Colección Anfora, 2008,
La religión en el espacio público: los procesos de desecularización (Religion in the Public Sphere)
en Roberto Blancarte (Editor) Los Retos de la Laicidad y la Secularización en el
Mundo Contemporáneo, El Colegio de México, 2008.
El conflicto palestino-israelí. Recurrencias históricas; nuevos dilemas (The Palestine-Israeli
Conflict: Historical Continuities, New Dilemmas) in Manuel Ferez Gil (Compilador) El Conflicto
en Gaza e Israel 2008-2009. Una visión desde América Latina, México, Senado de la República,
2009, pp. 95-126.
Multiculturalismo (Multiculturalism) en Araceli Mondragón y Francisco Monroy (Coordinadores)
Interculturalidad. Historias, experiencia y utopías, UIEM-Plaza y Valdés, 2010, pp. 83-98.
Klal Ysrael Today. Unity and Diversity: Reflections on Europe and Latin America in a Globalized
World (en colaboración con Eliezer Ben Rafael), en Julius Schoeps, et al. A Road to Nowhere
¿Jewish Experiences Unifying Europe?, Leiden y London: Brill, 2010.
Cuarenta años de cambio: transiciones y paradigmas(Forty Years of Change: Transitions and
Paradygms) con Haim Avni, Sergio DellaPergola et al, en Pertenencia y alteridad. Judíos en/de
América Latina: Cuarenta años de cambios, Editorial Iberoamérica-Berlín-Madrid, 2011, pp. 1383.
“Mexico in a Region under Change”, Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Vermont, USA, volume
3, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 27-49.
Prácticas y discursos de exclusión. Aproximaciones a la construcción identitaria judía en México
(Praxis and Discurses of Exclusion. Approaches to Jewish Identity Construction in Mexico) en
Alicia Gojman de Backal (Coordinadora) Memorias Archivadas, México, UNAM, 2011
El Medio Oriente Hoy: Nuevas Tendencias e Interrogantes (The Middle East Today: New Trends
and Quandaries), with Yael Siman, in Manuel Ferez and Elisenda Ballesté (Edit) Medio Oriente y
Norte de Africa: Reforma, Revolución o Continuidad, México, Senado de la República, 2011.
Being National/Being Transnational: Snapshots of Belonging and Citizenship, en Shifting Frontiers
of Citizenship: the Latin America experience, Leiden y London, Brill, 2013, pp. 343-365.
On Diaspora and Loyalties in times of Globalization and Transnationalism. A propos Morton
Weinfeld’s presentation as recipient of the Sklare Award, Contemporary Jewry, 2014.
Latin American Jewish Social Studies: the Evolution of Cross-Disciplinary Field” en Studies in
Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 27 Science and Ideology in Contemporary Jewish Research, Uzi Rebhun
(Editor) (The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Oxford University Press), 2014, pp. 178-193.
Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners, in Reconsidering IsraelDiaspora Relations, Boston and Leiden: Brill , 2014
Approaching Recurrences and Changes of Antisemitism in Latin America: the case of Mexico en
Tolerance or True Acceptance? North American Antisemitism ,Steven K. Baum, Steven L. Jacobs
and Florette Cohen (eds), Boston and Leiden: Brill , 2015.
Penser Global: Globalization and transnationalism: facing new realities, narratives and conceptual
challenges, Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, 2015.
Transnational Expansions of Latin American Jewish Life in times of migration: A mosaic of
experiences in the United States, en Eli Lederhendler y Uzi Rebhun (Eds.), Research in Jewish
Demography and Identity, Boston, Academic Studies Press, 2015
The Changing Status of Zionism and Israel in Latin American Jewry, en Eliezer Ben Rafael, Julius
Schoeps. Yitzhak Sterenberg amd Olaf Glokner(Eds.), Handbook of Israel: The Major Debates, 2
volumes, De Greyter Editorial House, 2016
Thinking “Múltiples Modernities” from Latin America’s Perspectives: complexity, periphery and
diversity, en Multiple Modernities in the Contemporary Scene. A continuation of the Multiple
Modernities Research Program, Michael Sussman y Gerhard Preyer (Brill) 2016.
Expanding frontiers and affirming belonging: Youth travel to Israel. A view from Latin America, en
Hagira Journal on Migration, 2016.
Conceptual and Methodological Clues
for Approaching the Connections between Mexico and the
Holocaust: Separate or Interconnected Histories? With Daniela Gleizer and Yael Siman.
Contemporary Review of the Middle East 3(3) 2016 SAgE Publications pp 1-37
Selected Editorial scientific articles
On Challenges, Disciplinsy Knowledge and Convergences. The Mexican Journal of Political and
Socil Sciences in its exico and Latin America New Epoche. (De desafíos, saberes y convergencias
La Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales”, Editorial Essay. La Revista Mexicana de
Ciencias Politicas y Sociales, January- April 2013. 217: 9-28.
México and Latin America. Social Reserach as a Bridge connecting the Universal and the Particular
(México y América Latina. La investigación social como puente entre lo universal y lo particular) ,
Editorial Essay. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, May- August 2013, 218: pp. 918.
Soicasl Sciences nd Scientific Knowledge: drawing options for orienting change and social action?
(Ciencias Sociales y conocimiento: ¿Intelección de opciones de cambio y cursos de acción posibles)
Editorial Essay, September- Dcember 2013, 219: 7-18.
Challenges Social Sciences Face in a Global Milieu (Los desafíos de las ciencias sociales frente a
las múltiples resonancias de lo global”) Editorial Essay, The Mexican Journal of Political and
Social Sciences, January –April 2014, 220: 7-20.
Politics and Memory: Pluralyzing Past and Present Scenarios (Política y memoria. Pluralizando los
escenarios del pasado y del presente) Editorial Essay, The Mexican Journal of Political and Social
Sciences, May-August 2014, 221: 9-18.
On Transformations of Politics, Power and Social Praxis (“En torno a las transformaciones de lo
político, el poder y las prácticas sociales”) Editorial Essay, The Mexican Journal of Political and
Social Sciences, September-December 2014, 222 9-18.
“Power, Politics and Society. The Latinamerican Texture of Inequalities in the Global Context”Sp.
(Poder, política y sociedad. El entramado latinoamericano de las desigualdades en el contexto
global). Editorial Article, Mexican Journal of Political and Social Sciences January-April 2015.,
223: 9-26.
Polychromy of Knowledges: on Multiple Reconfigurations and Regional Conflicts in a Global
World (“Policromía de saberes: Sobre reconfiguraciones múltiples y conflictos regionales en un
mundo global”) Editorial Essay Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, May-August
2015, 224: 9-14.
Among her Awards and Recognitions:
Academic Merit, UNAM, 1996; 2005, for her outstanding teaching and research contributions.
Academic of the Year 1999, ICMI; ç
Raúl Cardiel Reyes Medal to Academic Merit in Political Science, 2004.
Award Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, UNAM, 2007.
Fisher Prize in Jewish Education, Jerusalem, 2008.
Life Achievement Award, the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, 2014.
National University Prize for Research in Social Sciences, 2015.
Prof Bokser has attended more than 200 national and international conferences and congresses.
She is member of Numerous National and International scientific and academic institutions,
associations and Editorial Committees.
Prof. Judit Bokser Liwerant
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Distinguished Visiting Professor
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem