Jewish imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War

• Titel: Jewish imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War
• Titelzusatz: in search of poetic justice
• Mitwirkende: Gabbay, Cynthia [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Cynthia Gabbay
• Verlagsort: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: xii, 242 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Comparative Jewish literatures
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-7942-0
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-7945-1
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-7941-3
• Schlagwörter: (s)Jüdische Literatur / (s)Spanischer Bürgerkrieg <Motiv>
• Schlagwörter: (s)Juden / (s)Spanischer Bürgerkrieg <1936-1939> / (s)Journalismus / (s)Literatur / (s)Kunst / (z)Geschichte
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: EC 5410
• Sach-SW: Essays
• K10plus-PPN: 1808435222

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"--