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

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

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 711 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : 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. Featuring essays by international experts in the fields of history, literary studies, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and film studies, this book clarifies historical issues within Spain while also demonstrating the impact of Spain's involvement in the Second World War on historical memory of the Holocaust. Many of the contributors have done extensive archival research, bringing new information and perspectives to the table, and in many cases the essays published here analyze primary and secondary material previously unavailable in English. Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust reaches beyond discipline, genre, nation, and time period to offer previously unknown evidence of Spain’s continued relevance to the Holocaust and the Second World War.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue: Jews and Spaniards at Meeting Points of Their Histories during the Nazi Era

Part One: Legacies of Antisemitism in Spain

1. Hero and Monster: The Place of Jews in Spain’s National Identity

2. Antisemitism and Philosephardism in Spain, 1880–1945

Part Two: Spain and the Fates of Jewish Communities

3. Spain and the Jews during the Holocaust

4. The Franco Regime and the Jews of North Africa during the Second World War

5. Spain, Refuge for Jews Fleeing Nazism during the Second World War

6. Routes of the Renowned and the Nameless: Clandestine Border-Crossing at the Pyrenees, 1939–1945

7. Spanish Jews in Bergen-Belsen Camp, 1943–1944: Primary Evidence of Spanish Diplomacy

8. Beyond Duty: The Spanish Foreign Service’s Humanitarian Response to the Holocaust

Part Three: Spanish Exiles in France

9. Spanish Republicans Exiled in France during the Second World War: War and Resistance

10. From Internees to Liberators: Spanish Republican Exiles in France, 1939–1945

11. The Stateless Monument: Memory of the Spanish Republicans Who Died in Mauthausen

Part Four: Spanish Republicans in Nazi Camps

12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück

13. Between Compiègne and Neuengamme: Testimony and Trauma of Spanish Prisoners in German Concentration Camps

14. Spain’s Mauthausen: Narratives of the Nazi Deportation of Spanish Republicans, 1946–2018

15. Joaquim Amat-Piniella’s Novel K.L. Reich: The Gaze of the Political Deportee

16. Jorge Semprún and the Holocaust

17. Montserrat Roig and Her Contribution to the Memory of the Republican Deportation

Part Five: Propaganda

18. Francoist Antisemitic Propaganda, 1939–1945

19. The Catholic Church and the Jews in Franco’s Spain during the Holocaust, 1939–1945

20. The Politics of Survival: Madrid’s Pro-Jewish Propaganda and the Canonization of Francisco Franco as Benefactor of Jews

21. Tainted Visions of War: Antisemitic German Propaganda in Spain

22. A Touch of Nazi Sophistication: The Promotion of Spanish Culture in Wartime Germany

Part Six: The Blue Division

23. The Blue Division and the National Question in the Occupied Territory of Russia, 1941–1943

24. Representations of the Blue Division in Memoir and Fiction

Part Seven: 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”

26. Nazis, Real and Imagined, in Post-Second-World-War Spain

Part Eight: 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

28. Audiovisual Production on the Republican Deportation and Spain as Haven of the Nazis

29. With Sepharad as a Void: Recent Reckoning with the Holocaust in Spanish Fiction

30. “Only Writing Matters”: Anne Frank in/and Spanish Holocaust Poetry, 1966–2004

31. The Words That Replace the Elusive Past: Some Recent Ladino Poetic Responses to the Holocaust

32. Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in Spain

Part Nine: Afterlives: Holocaust Appropriations in Spain

33. Between “No Pasarán” and “Nunca Más”: The Holocaust and the Revisiting of Spain’s Legacy of Mass Violence

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

TORONTO IBERIC

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4875-3251-2

1-4875-3250-4

OCLC:

1122741896