Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (; born December 29, 1936) is a Mexican writer, academic, poet and professor. She is known for her work and research on Ladino, crypto-Judaism, Jewish mysticism and Sephardic Jews. Muñiz-Huberman is a recipient of the Xavier Villaurrutia Award and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. 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.

Biography 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.