Shai Zamir

I am a cultural and social historian of the early modern Iberian world. My disseration explores the practices of friendship in various parts of the Spanish empire. I also work on Sephardi Jews and New Christians in Amsterdam and the New World and on Jewish-Chrisitan religious polemics.

I studied history (MA) at the Adi Lautman Program for Outstanding Students at Tel-Aviv University, and Talmud at the Hadar Institute in New York. 

Field of Study

• Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• Colonial Latin America
• Religion
• Jewish Studies