ISBN:
9781501379420
,
9781501379413
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 242 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Comparative Jewish literatures
DDC:
809/.9335846081
Keywords:
Jewish literature History and criticism 20th century
;
Jewish literature History and criticism 21st century
;
Jews Intellectual life 20th century
;
Jews Intellectual life 21st century
;
Essays
;
Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939
;
Literature and the war
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Spanischer Bürgerkrieg
;
Juden
;
Spanischer Bürgerkrieg
;
Journalismus
;
Literatur
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Introduction: The Spanish Civil War and its Jewish cultural phenomenon -- Textualities of war in journalism, epistolaries, and music. León Azerrat alias Ben-Krimo: a Moroccan Jew in the Spanish Civil War / Asher Salah -- Beyond music: Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) / Antonio Notario Ruiz -- Simón Radowitzky: revolution, exile, and a wandering Jew imaginary / Leonardo Senkman -- Max Aub, the exile who returns to the diaspora / Mauricio Pilatowsky Braverman -- The holy war on fascism / Deborah Green -- Textualities of memory and postmemory in contemporary literature and thought. Jewish Argentine perspectives and intellectual mission around the Spanish Civil War: the cases of Alberto Gerchunoff and Enrique Espinoza / Melina Di Miro -- "The world exists and we are part of it": the Inzikh's poetic response to the Spanish Civil War / Golda van der Meer -- A better Earth: Spain's land and inquisition in Jewish Canadian Spanish Civil War literature / Emily Robins Sharpe -- A novel that never was: Ruth Rewald's Vier Spanische Jungen / Tabea Alexa Linhard -- Using the Kabbalah to make sense of the Spanish War: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's War of the unicorn (1983) / E. Helena Houvenaghel -- A Jewish-Spanish outlook on the Civil War in La canción de Ruth by Marifé Santiago Bolaños / Rose Duroux -- Conclusion: Poetic justice for the lost Spain: deciphering Jewish keys in modern and contemporary imaginaries / Cynthia Gabbay.
Abstract:
"A study of works written by 20th- and 21st-century authors producing Jewish poetics around their experience and memory of the Spanish Civil War"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
