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The Institute of Urban Studies of the National University of Colombia invites you to participate in a new series of lectures of the Virtual City program. On this occasion we are joined 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 first chapter of this series of two lectures will be dedicated to the history of the three Jewish cemeteries that exist in Bogotá, namely, the Southern Cemetery, the Central Cemetery and the Northern Cemetery, in the broader context of the emergence of non-Catholic cemeteries in the city. Suggested bibliography: Leal Villamizar, Lina María, Colombia frente al antisemitismo y la immigration de judíos Polonias 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.