José Alberto R. S. Tavim

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José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim got a PhD in Portuguese Studies from the New University of Lisbon and he is a Senior Researcher and Professor at the Center for History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, as also Collaborator Member at CIDEHUS, Évora University. He is also the Chair of the Seminar “The Jews in Portugal and in the Diaspora”, at the University of Lisbon.

He was the recipient of 10 fellowships, between them: 2025 – European Association for Jewish Studies; 2021 – The Lowenstein-Wiener Fellowship granted by The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, USA; 2007-2008 – Post-Doctoral Fellowship granted by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia de Portugal, hosted institution: École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris; 2007 – The Touro National Heritage Fellowship, The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, USA; and 1996-1999 – PhD Fellowship granted by the Fundação Oriente.

José Alberto Tavim is a Founder Member of the “Society for the Study of the Jews of Sepharad” (Hebrew University), 2009 (http://www.sefarad-studies.org/); and was re-elected to its Executive Board till the present year. He is also a member of the European Association for Jewish Studies. He was integrated, by invitation, into The Lisbon Museum Scientific Board. José Alberto Tavim was also requested as an evaluator by the European Research Council, Israel Scientific Council and Oxford University Press. He was also a referee in Ler História; Sefarad,; InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies; Journal of Sefardic Studies; Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos; Hispania Judaica; Revue des etudes juives; Revista Meridional, Meldar, and Maracanã.

He is the author of two books and more than 60 articles and chapters published in Portuguese, Castilian, French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Turk, and Arabic, and participated in more than 60 national and international conferences in Spain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Low Countries, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Montenegro, Croatia, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, India, Brazil. Mozambique and the United States.

He founded Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies with the late professor Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros (http://www.hamsa.cidehus.uevora.pt/index_pt.htm). He co-edited 4 books, and published in Garnier, Brill, and Palgrave, between other editors; and in Jewish History, Mediterranean Historical Review, Journal of Early Modern History, Oriente Moderno European Judaism, Anais de História de Além-Mar, Studia Rosenthaliana, Sefarad, Hamsa, Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies, Levantine Studies, and Ler História, between other scientific journals.

José Alberto Tavim co-coordinate 11 international conferences and workshops, participated in 5 FCT projects, 1 sponsored by Gulbenkian Foundation and coordinated the project “Portuguese Jewish Sources in Portugal”, founded by Rothschild Foundation (HANADIV) Europe, CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora, as the host institution (2014-2018). He was also Invited to the Management Committee, representing Portugal, of COST ACTION CA18140 – People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923): https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18140/ – 2019-2021;  and currently belongs to the Management Committee, representing Portugal, of COST ACTION CA 23144 – Europe’s Representations of India: Texts, Images, and Encounters (ESIND): https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA23144/ – 2024-2028).. He is now publishing a book on David Reubeni by Chandeigne (Paris, by invitation); and co-editing two books: Homesickness in the Mediterranean World (1492-1923), by Routledge; and More than Homesickness. Minorities and the transference of money, commodities and people in the Mediterranean (1492-1956), by CIDEHUS e-books collection.