Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War

In Search of Poetic Justice

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7941-3 (ISBN)

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Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War inaugurates a new field of research in literary and Jewish studies at the intersection of Jewish history and the internationalist cultural phenomenon emerging from the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), the Republican exile, and the Shoah. With the Spanish Civil War as a point of departure, this volume proposes a definition of Jewish textualities based on the entanglement of multiple poetic modes. Through the examination of a variety of narrative fiction and non-fiction, memoir, poetry, epistles, journalism, and music in Yiddish, Spanish, French, German, and English, these essays unveil non-canonic authors across the West and explore these works in the context of antisemitism, orientalism, and philo-Sephardism, among other cultural phenomena.

Jewish writings from the war have much to tell about the encounter between old traditions and new experimentations, framed by urgency, migration, and messianic hope. They offer perspectives on memorial and post-memorial literatures triggered by transhistorical imagination, and many were written against the grain of canonic literature, where subtle forms of dissidence, manifested through language, structure, sound, and thought, sought to tune with the anti-fascist fight. This book revindicates the polyglossia of Jewish cultures and literatures in the context of genocide and epistemicide and proposes to remember the cultural phenomena produced by the Spanish Civil War, demanding a new understanding of the cosmopolitan imaginaries in Jewish literature.

Cynthia Gabbay is Researcher in Latin American and Romance Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. This work is one of the products of her Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at Freie University of Berlin, Germany. She is the author of Los ríos metafísicos de Julio Cortázar: de la lírica al diálogo (2015).

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Translations and Transliterations
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Spanish Civil War and Its Jewish Cultural Phenomenon
Cynthia Gabbay (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, Germany)
Part One. TEXTUALITIES OF WAR IN JOURNALISM, EPISTOLARIES, AND MUSIC
1. León 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. Simón 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 Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico)
5. The Holy War on Fascism
Deborah A. Green (Independent Scholar, USA)
Part Two. 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 Kabbalah to Make Sense of the Spanish Civil War: Angelina Muñiz-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 canción de Ruth by Marifé Santiago Bolaños
Rose Duroux (Université Clermont Auvergne, France)
Conclusion: Poetic Justice for the Lost Spain: Deciphering Jewish Keys in Modern and Contemporary Imaginaries
Cynthia Gabbay (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, Germany)
Index
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Comparative Jewish Literatures
Zusatzinfo	37 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-5013-7941-0 / 1501379410
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7941-3 / 9781501379413
Zustand	Neuware