The Memory Work of Jewish Spain

Awards:   Winner of Jewish Book Award - History 2022 Winner of Jewish Book Award 2022
Author:   Daniela Flesler ,  Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
ISBN:  

9780253050106


Pages:   390
Publication Date:   08 December 2020
Format:   Hardback
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The Memory Work of Jewish Spain


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Awards

  • Winner of Jewish Book Award - History 2022
  • Winner of Jewish Book Award 2022

Overview

The 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 is the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the ""re-discovery"" of its Jewish heritage. In The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, Daniela Flesler and Adrian Perez Melgosa examine the implications of reclaiming this memory through the analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural practices, political initiatives and institutions in the context of the long history of Spain's ambivalence towards its Jewish past. Through oral interviews, analyses of museums, newly reconfigured ""Jewish quarters,"" excavated Jewish sites, popular festivals, tourist brochures, literature and art, The Memory Work of Jewish Spain explores what happens when these initiatives are implemented at the local level in cities and towns throughout Spain, and how they affect Spain's present.

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Author:   Daniela Flesler ,  Adrián Pérez Melgosa
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 23.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.744kg
ISBN:  

9780253050106


ISBN 10:   0253050103
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   08 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Memory Work of Jewish Spain 1. The Long Journey of Sephardi Myths 2. Tourism and the Embracing of Spain's Jewish Legacy 3. Loss, Rescue, and Converso Dissonances at the Sephardi Museum of Toledo 4. Exhibiting Jewish Heritage at the Local and Regional Levels 5. Memory Entanglements: Hervás's Jewish Inheritance and the Francoist Repression 6. Returns to Sepharad Conclusion: Memory and the Future Bibliography

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a wide-ranging book that analyzes the ways in which public imaginary has taken form in heritage sites throughout Spain. * Sephardic Horizons *


Author Information

Daniela Flesler is Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. She is author of The Return of the Moor: Spanish Responses to Contemporary Moroccan Immigration and editor (with Adrián Pérez Melgosa and Tabea A. Linhard) of Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era. Adrián Pérez Melgosa is Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. He is author of Cinema and Inter-American Relations: Tracking Transnational Affect and editor (with Daniela Flesler and Tabea A. Linhard) of Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era.

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