Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust : history and representation / edited by Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brenneis, Sara J., editor.

Herrmann, Gina, editor.

Series:

Toronto Iberic ; 49.

Toronto Iberic ; 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Spain--History--20th century.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Spain.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Spain.

World War, 1939-1945.

Ethnic relations.

History.

Spain--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Spain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 711 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Spain has for too long been considered peripheral to the human catastrophes of World War II and the Holocaust. This volume is the first broadly interdisciplinary, scholarly collection to situate Spain in a position of influence in the history and culture of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Featuring essays collected from international experts representing the fields of history, literary studies, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and film studies, this book clarifies historical issues in Spain, while also demonstrating the impact of Spain's involvement in the Holocaust on theories of memory. Many of the contributors have done extensive archival research with an eye toward bringing new information and perspectives to the table: in many cases, the essays published here analyze primary and secondary material previously unavailable in English. Accessible and engaging, this book will serve as a foundational and rich point of interdisciplinary reference as it reaches beyond discipline, genre, nation, and time period to offer unknown evidence of Spain's continued relevance to the Holocaust and the Second World War."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Legacies of Antisemitism in Spain

1 Hero and Monster: The Place of Jews in Spain's National Identity p. 49 / Martina L. Weisz and Raanan Rein

2 Antisemitism and Philosephardism in Spain, 1880-1945 p. 65 / Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida

Part 2 Spain and the Fates of Jewish Communities

3 Spain and the Jews during the Holocaust p. 83 / Jacobo Israel Garzón

4 The Franco Regime and the Jews of North Africa during the Second World War p. 100 / Isabelle Rohr

5 Spain, Refuge for Jews Fleeing Nazism during the Second World War p. 115 / Josep Calvet

6 Routes of the Renowned and the Nameless: Clandestine Border-Crossing at the Pyrenees, 1939-1945 p. 125 / Tabea Alexa Linhard

7 Spanish Jews in Bergen-Belsen Camp, 1943-1944: Primary Evidence of Spanish Diplomacy p. 138 / Maria Fragkou

8 Beyond Duty: The Spanish Foreign Service's Humanitarian Response to the Holocaust p. 153 / José Antonio Lisbona

Part 3 Spanish Exiles in France

9 Spanish Republicans Exiled in France during the Second World War: War and Resistance p. 185 / Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand

10 From Internees to Liberators: Spanish Republican Exiles in France, 1939-1945 p. 199 / Robert S. Coale

11 The Stateless Monument: Memory of the Spanish Republicans Who Died in Mauthausen p. 214 / Juan M. Calvo Gascón

Part 4 Spanish Republicans in Nazi Camps

12 Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück p. 237 / Gina Herrmann

13 Between Compiegne and Neuengamme: Testimony and Trauma of Spanish Prisoners in German Concentration Camps p. 258 / Andrea Hepworth

14 Spain's Mauthausen: Narratives of the Nazi Deportation of Spanish Republicans, 1946-2018 p. 272 / Sara J. Brenneis

15 Joaquim Amat-Piniella's Novel K.L. Reich: The Gaze of the Political Deportee p. 291 / Marta Marín-Dòmine

16 Jorge Semprún and the Holocaust p. 301 / Soledad Fox Maura

17 Montserrat Roig and Her Contribution to the Memory of the Republican Deportation p. 313 / Rosa Toran

Part 5 Propaganda

18 Francoist Antisemitic Propaganda, 1939-1945 p. 329 / Javier Domínguez Arribas

19 The Catholic Church and the Jews in Franco's Spain during the Holocaust, 1939-1945 p. 353 / Graciela Ben Dror

20 The Politics of Survival: Madrid's Pro-Jewish Propaganda and the Canonization of Francisco Franco as Benefactor of Jews p. 373 / Pedro Correa Martín-Arroyo

21 Tainted Visions of War: Antisemitic German Propaganda in Spain p. 389 / Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío

22 A Touch of Nazi Sophistication: The Promotion of Spanish Culture in Wartime Germany p. 403 / Marició Janué I Miret

Part 6 The Blue Division

23 The Blue Division and the National Question in the Occupied Territory of Russia, 1941-1943 p. 423 / Boris Kovalev

24 Representations of the Blue Division in Memoir and Fiction p. 444 / Macarena Tejada López

Part 7 Nazis in Spain

25 Spain's Neutral Holocaust: Memories of the Axis Alliance in Francoist and Post-Franco Spain, or "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Otto Skorzeny" p. 469 / Joshua Goode

26 Nazis, Real and Imagined, in Post-Second-World-War Spain p. 483 / David A. Messenger

Part 8 The Holocaust in Contemporary Spanish and Ladino Culture

27 Memory and the Ethical Imagination: The Holocaust and Deportation to Mauthausen in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Theatre p. 503 / Marilén Loyola

28 Audiovisual Production on the Republican Deportation and Spain as Haven of the Nazis p. 519 / Isabel Estrada

29 With Sepharad as a Void: Recent Reckoning with the Holocaust in Spanish Fiction p. 536 / Stacy N. Beckwith

30 "Only Writing Matters": Anne Frank in/and Spanish Holocaust Poetry, 1966-2004 p. 552 / Paul Cahill

31 The Words That Replace the Elusive Past: Some Recent Ladino Poetic Responses to the Holocaust p. 567 / Shmuel Refael

32 Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in Spain p. 586 / Marta Simó

Part 9 Afterlives: Holocaust Appropriations in Spain

33 Between "No Pasaran" and "Nunca Más": The Holocaust and the Revisiting of Spain's Legacy of Mass Violence p. 603 / Alejandro Baer and Natan Sznaider.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust.

ISBN:

9781487505707

1487505701

OCLC:

1122681028