Jewish imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War : in search of poetic justice /

A study of works written by 20th- and 21st-century authors producing Jewish poetics around their experience and memory of the Spanish Civil War.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gabbay, Cynthia, 1978- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Series:Comparative Jewish literatures.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.