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The Institute of Urban Studies of the National University of Colombia invites you to participate in the conference Jewish Bogotá by Enrique Martínez Ruiz, anthropologist and master in History and Theory of Art, Architecture and the City from the National University of Colombia; PhD in History from Tel Aviv University (Israel) and postdoctoral researcher of the Spiwak Chair for the History and Culture of Judaism in Colombia at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. The second chapter is dedicated to the history of the synagogues of Bogotá, that is, to the only Sephardic synagogue, the five Ashkenazi synagogues and the two German synagogues, in addition to the two locations of the Colombo-Hebreo school whose auditoriums were built to function as synagogues. Suggested bibliography: Leal Villamizar, Lina María, Colombia frente al antisemitismo y la immigration de judíos Poles y Alemáns, 1933-1948. Bogotá: Colombian Academy of History, 2015. Martínez Ruiz, Enrique, Quinta Sión. The Jews and the Formation of the Urban Space of Bogotá. Bogotá: Pontifical University of Javerina Publishing House, 2018 Sourdis Nájera, The Hidden Record. The Sephardim of the Caribbean in the Formation of the Colombian Nation, 1813-1886. Bogotá: Colombian Academy of History, 2003.