Allyson Gonzalez

Affiliation: Religion

Assistant Professor of Religion

Allyson Gonzalez is a scholar of Jewish cultures of the modern Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds with a focus on the Sephardic Diaspora and on Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations. Covering an array of topics at the intersections of culture, politics, and religion, Gonzalez has taught at Yale University and Florida State, as well as the University of Chicago and Brandeis University. Most recently affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gonzalez’s work has been supported by two Fulbright fellowships (Mexico, Israel), the German state of Brandenburg (Postdoc Network Brandenburg), and an Andrew Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship. Prior to her training in graduate school, Gonzalez was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as a lead writer of a newspaper team. In 2018, she was co-awarded the New Voices in Jewish Studies Award from Columbia University and Fordham University. Her scholarly publications and translations have appeared in peer-reviewed venues like Stanford University Press and the Jewish Quarterly Review, as well as the Italian-based Quest: Contemporary Issues in Jewish History. She is currently revising a book-length manuscript and beginning work on a new project.

Allyson Gonzalez, “In Search of a Missing Editor: Españoles sin patria after Ángel Pulido. Sephardic Jews on a Habsburg Faultline and the Challenge of Micca Gross Alcalay (1865–1905),” Jewish Culture and History 26.4, Local Knowledge Production and Translocal Connectedness: Sephardi / Mizrahi Entanglements of Movement and Space (2025): 562-581.

Allyson Gonzalez, “Rabbinic Diplomacy in Cold War Spain: Solomon Gaon (1912-1994) and the Origins of a Ladino Blessing,” in Mizmor leDavid: Studies in Jewish Languages [Festschrift in Honor of David Bunis], eds. Ora Rodrigue Schwarzwald, Katja Smid, and Ofra Tirosh-Becker (Madrid, Spain: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2024), 101-118.

Allyson Gonzalez, “The Quincentennial of 1992: Scholarship and the Transnational Commemorations of the Jewish Expulsion from Spain – Beyond the ‘Sephardic Mystique,’” in Sephardic History Beyond Europe, eds., Jonathan Hirsch, Sina Rauschenbach, Carsten Schapkow (Berlin: Jahrbuch, Selma Stern Zentrum, Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg/Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, 2023), 100-119.

Allyson Gonzalez, “Modern Conversos and the Performance of Sephardi Citizenship in Spain,” Tulane University Grant Center for the Jewish Experience, Jewish Gender, Drag, and Performance Working Group, December 2022.

Allyson Gonzalez, “A History of Histories—of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Exchange: A.S. Yahuda and the International Trade of Antiquities, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, 1902-1944,” Quest: Contemporary Issues in Jewish History 18 (December 2020): 34-65.

Allyson Gonzalez, “Abraham S. Yahuda (1877-1951) and the Politics of Modern Jewish Scholarship,” Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 109, No. 3 (summer 2019): 406-433.

Allyson Gonzalez, “The First Modern Syllabus,” Jewish Quarterly Review [JQR blog, October 2019; Spanish-to-English annotated translation]

Allyson Gonzalez, “A.S. Yahuda and Wissenschaft des Judentums: A Conversation,” Jewish Quarterly Review [JQR blog, October 2019; a dialogue with forum co-organizer Michal Friedman]. See

Allyson Gonzalez, “Semblanza de Rebecca Arié (1889-1980),” Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI) - EDI-RED. This is the first piece published on the most prominent Sephardi publisher of the 20th century. Project sponsored by the Centro Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes in Spain.

Allyson Gonzalez, “Teaching Hebrew in Madrid (1949),” Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950, eds. Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, (Stanford University, 2014), 425-428 [Hebrew to English translation].

Education

PhD, Brandeis University
MA, University of Chicago
BA, Florida State University

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