Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era

Daniela Flesler is Associate Professor of Spanish at SUNY Stony Brook, USA. She specializes in Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Cultural Studies, with a focus on issues of transnationalism and the construction of national identities. Previous publications include The Return of the Moor: Moroccan Immigration in Contemporary Spain (2008). Tabea Alexa Linhard is Associate Professor of Spanish and International and Area Studies at Washington University, USA. Her research interests cover contemporary Peninsular and Mexican literature and cultural studies. Previous publications include Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (2005). Adrián Pérez Melgosa is Assistant Professor of Spanish at SUNY Stony Brook, USA. He specialises in Contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies. Other publications include Cinema and Inter-American Relations: Tracking Transnational Affect (2012).

• 1. Introduction: Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era Daniela Flesler, Tabea Alexa Linhard and Adrián Pérez Melgosa 2. Amador de los Ríos and the Beginnings of Modern Jewish Studies in Spain Andrew Bush 3. The Narrative Work of the Jewish Conspirator in Mid-Nineteenth Century European Literature Lou Charnon-Deutsch 4. Reconquering "Sepharad": Hispanism and Proto-Fascism in Giménez Caballero's Sephardist Crusade Michal Friedman 5. "Spaniards of the Jewish Type": Philosephardism in the Service of Imperialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spanish Morocco Isabelle Rohr 6. The Second Republic, the Jews and the Uses of the Past Tabea Alexa Linhard 7. On Universalist Particularism: The Catalans and the Jews Edgar Illas 8. The Voids of Sepharad: The Memory of the Holocaust in Spain Alejandro Baer