ISBN:
9781501379451
,
9781501379437
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (248 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Comparative Jewish Literatures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Jewish literature History
;
Spanish literature Jewish authors
;
Military participation Jewish
;
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
;
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
;
Jewish studies
;
Spanish Civil War
;
Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939
;
Juden
;
Spanischer Bürgerkrieg
Abstract:
"Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War provides unprecedented engagement with the Spanish Civil War as a point of departure and of compounding return for various writers and artists producing Jewish imaginaries who volunteered to fight fascism in the Iberian Peninsula in the late 1930s or responded from abroad, as well as their successors. These essays demonstrate the importance that this event - the preamble to the Second World War and the Shoah - has had for the Jewish people and Jewish cultural production through the 20th century and into the 21st. Jewish literature journalism, letters, and music from the war have much to tell about the encounter between old traditions and new experimentations, framed by urgency, migration, and messianic hope. Many were writing against the grain of canonic literature, where subtle forms of dissidence, manifested through language, structure, sound, and thought, sought to align with the anti-fascist fight. Most contributions in this volume discuss subaltern voices from across the globe - including from Germany, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, France, and Spain - which were left under the shadow of the continuously growing corpus of world literature of the Spanish Civil War. There is also an analysis of the “Jewishness” - aesthetics as well as ideas - of the secular imaginaries of these artists and intellectuals as embedded in Jewish topics and ethos. Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War thus proposes to remember the cultural phenomena produced by the Spanish Civil War, demanding a new understanding of the cosmopolitan imaginaries in Jewish literature."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Spanish Civil War and Its Jewish Cultural Phenomenon Cynthia Gabbay (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, Germany) Part I TEXTUALITIES OF WAR IN JOURNALISM, EPISTOLARIES, AND MUSIC -- 1. Leon Azerrat alias Ben-Krimo: A Moroccan Jew in the Spanish Civil War Asher Salah (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel) -- 2. Beyond Music: Hanns Eisler (1898?1962) Antonio Notario Ruiz (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) -- 3. Simâon Radowitzky: Revolution, Exile, and a Wandering Jew Imaginary Leonardo Senkman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) -- 4. Max Aub, the Exile Who Returns to the Diaspora Mauricio Pilatowsky Braverman (Universidad Nacional Autâonoma de Mexico, Mexico) -- 5. The Holy War on Fascism Deborah Green (Independent Scholar, USA) -- PART II TEXTUALITIES OF MEMORY AND POSTMEMORY IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THOUGHT -- 6. Jewish Argentine Perspectives and Intellectual Mission around the Spanish Civil War: The Cases of Alberto Gerchunoff and Enrique Espinoza. Melina Di Miro (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) 7. ?The world exists and we are part of it?:The Inzikh 's poetic response to the Spanish Civil War. Golda van der Meer (Universidad de Barcelona, Spain) -- 8. A Better Earth: Spain's Land and Inquisition in Jewish Canadian Spanish Civil War Literature Emily Robins Sharpe (Keene State College, Canada) -- 9. A Novel that Never Was: Ruth Rewald's Vier Spanische Jungen Tabea Alexa Linhard (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) -- 10. Using the Wisdom of Kabbalah to Make Sense of the Spanish War: Angelina Muäniz-Huberman's War of the Unicorn (1983) E. Helena Houvenaghel (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) -- 11. A Jewish-Spanish Outlook on the Civil War in La Canciâon de Ruth by Marifé Santiago Bolaänos. Rose Duroux (Université Clermont Auvergne, France) Conclusion: Deciphering Jewish Keys in Modern and Contemporary Imaginaries Cynthia Gabbay (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, Germany)
DOI:
10.5040/9781501379451
