Margarita Lerman is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Fellow at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig, Germany. She studied Translation (2015), Conference Interpreting (2019), and European Studies (2021) at the universities of Leipzig, Concepción (Chile), Havana (Cuba), and Jerusalem. In her PhD project, she explores Jewish criminal networks and their cross-border activities in the 19th century, focusing on their modi operandi and the scopes of action these networks created for Jewish men and women.