Jewish Imaginaries of the Spanish Civil War

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 FiguresPreface and AcknowledgmentsA Note on Translations and TransliterationsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Spanish Civil War and Its Jewish Cultural PhenomenonCynthia Gabbay (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, Germany)Part One. TEXTUALITIES OF WAR IN JOURNALISM, EPISTOLARIES, AND MUSIC1. León Azerrat alias Ben-Krimo: A Moroccan Jew in the Spanish Civil WarAsher 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 ImaginaryLeonardo Senkman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)4. Max Aub, the Exile Who Returns to the DiasporaMauricio Pilatowsky Braverman (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico)5. The Holy War on FascismDeborah A. Green (Independent Scholar, USA)Part Two. TEXTUALITIES OF MEMORY AND POSTMEMORY IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THOUGHT6. Jewish Argentine Perspectives and Intellectual Mission around the Spanish Civil War: The Cases of Alberto Gerchunoff and Enrique EspinozaMelina 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 WarGolda van der Meer (Universidad de Barcelona, Spain)8. A Better Earth: Spain’s Land and Inquisition in Jewish Canadian Spanish Civil War LiteratureEmily Robins Sharpe (Keene State College, Canada)9. A Novel That Never Was: Ruth Rewald’s Vier Spanische JungenTabea 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 BolañosRose 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)IndexNotes on ContributorsIndex

Cynthia Gabbay has assembled an important collection of articles defining a Jewish library of the Spanish Civil War. By turning their attention to the literature of a war that took place on the eve of the Holocaust, these authors shed new light on both Jewish internationalism and the history of the 20th century. This illustrative and well-researched anthology helps to show how Jewish thinkers, whether from Morocco, Argentina, Moscow, or New York, saw the struggle against fascism in Spain as a fight for their own communities.