Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

In 2022, she received an honorary doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) for a lifetime's work, an honor she shares with such figures as John Dewey, Octavio Paz and Juan Rulfo.

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman studied at National Autonomous University of Mexico and New York University. The recorded working language is Spanish. Work by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman is recorded in the collections of Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Distinctions recorded are Xavier Villaurrutia Award.

• Birth Name — Angelina Muñiz Sacristán • Born — 29 December 1936 • Birthplace — Hyères, France • Occupation — Writer • Citizenship — Mexican • Subject — Sephardic mysticism • Notable Works — El siglo del desencanto (2002) • Spouse — Alberto Huberman • Children — 2 • Website — 1=www.academia.org.mx/academicos-2022/item/angelina-muniz-huberman-2?category_id=2382 • Name — Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

She was born in Hyères in France to parents who had fled the Spanish Civil War. Her father was a Spanish journalist who wrote for the Heraldo de Madrid newspaper. As the Nazis started advancing into France in 1939, the Muñiz family fled to Cuba, where they briefly lived in the countryside until the family moved to Mexico City in 1942. Her father ran an outpost of a laboratory testing company owned by a family member residing in New York. Her mother changed her surname to sound more Christian, despite the fact that Sacristán was not a typically Jewish name. She converted to Judaism after discovering her Sephardic ancestry. Muñiz-Huberman grew up among other middle-class Jewish immigrants in the Condesa neighborhood. She studied Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, and has a PhD in literature from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She is a professor of medieval and comparative literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In November 2021, Muñiz-Huberman was inducted into Mexico's most prestigious literary body, the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (Mexican Academy of Language} following the death of the philosopher and historian Miguel León-Portilla. Her candidacy was proposed by academicians Ascensión Hernández Triviño, Javier Garciadiego, Roger Bartra and Silvia Molina. She has been married to Alberto Huberman since 1959. Huberman was born in Cuba and migrated to Mexico after the Cuban revolution to complete his medical studies. He was a member of the socialist Zionist youth organization Hashomer Hatzair, and was among the founders of Kibbutz Ga'ash during his stay in Israel.

• Enclosed Garden (Latin American Literary Review Press,1988. Trad. Lois Parkinson Zamora), short fiction • Dulcinée (UNESCO,1995), novel • A Mystical Journey (Gaon Books, 2011. Trad. Seymour Menton) • Dreaming of Safed (Gaon Books, 2014, Trad. Seymour Menton), YA novel • Enchanted Dulcinea (Rowman & Littlefield, March 2022. Trad. Rebecca Marquis), novel • Arrhythmias (Hablemos, ecritoras & Literal Publishing, 2022. Trad. D. P. Snyder), essay/short fiction

• Revised edition with an introduction and notes of León Dujovne's Spanish translation of Maimonides' The Guide for the Perplexed (Guía de los perplejos, based on the French version of Salomon Munk). Three volumes. Mexico City: Conaculta, 2001.