Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
Subtitle: history and representation
By: edited by Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann
Series: Toronto Iberic; Toronto Iberic
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 711
ISBN-13: 9781487532505; 9781487532512
Subjects: Jews; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945; Ethnic relations; Juifs; Histoire; Holocauste, 1939-1945; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; HISTORY / Holocaust
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Title Page; title: Copyright; title: Contents; title: List of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Prologue: Jews and Spaniards at Meeting Points of Their Histories during the Nazi Era; title: Part One: Legacies of Antisemitism in Spain; title: 1 Hero and Monster: The Place of Jews in Spain's National Identity; title: 2 Antisemitism and Philosephardism in Spain, 1880-1945; title: Part Two: Spain and the Fates of Jewish Communities; title: 3 Spain and the Jews during the Holocaust; title: 4 The Franco Regime and the Jews of North Africa during the Second World War; title: 5 Spain, Refuge for Jews Fleeing Nazism during the Second World War; title: 6 Routes of the Renowned and the Nameless: Clandestine Border-Crossing at the Pyrenees, 1939-1945; title: 7 Spanish Jews in Bergen-Belsen Camp, 1943-1944: Primary Evidence of Spanish Diplomacy; title: 8 Beyond Duty: The Spanish Foreign Service's Humanitarian Response to the Holocaust; title: Part Three: Spanish Exiles in France; title: 9 Spanish Republicans Exiled in France during the Second World War: War and Resistance; title: 10 From Internees to Liberators: Spanish Republican Exiles in France, 1939-1945; title: 11 The Stateless Monument: Memory of the Spanish Republicans Who Died in Mauthausen; title: Part Four: Spanish Republicans in Nazi Camps; title: 12 Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück; title: 13 Between Compiègne and Neuengamme: Testimony and Trauma of Spanish Prisoners in German Concentration Camps; title: 14 Spain's Mauthausen: Narratives of the Nazi Deportation of Spanish Republicans, 1946-2018; title: 15. Joaquim Amat-Piniella's Novel K.L. Reich: The Gaze of the Political Deportee; title: 16 Jorge Semprún and the Holocaust; title: 17 Montserrat Roig and Her Contribution to the Memory of the Republican Deportation; title: Part Five: Propaganda; title: 18 Francoist Antisemitic Propaganda, 1939-1945; title: 19 The Catholic Church and the Jews in Franco's Spain during the Holocaust, 1939-1945; title: 20 The Politics of Survival: Madrid's Pro-Jewish Propaganda and the Canonization of Francisco Franco as Benefactor of Jews; title: 21 Tainted Visions of War: Antisemitic German Propaganda in Spain; title: 22 A Touch of Nazi Sophistication: The Promotion of Spanish Culture in Wartime Germany; title: Part Six: The Blue Division; title: 23 The Blue Division and the National Question in the Occupied Territory of Russia, 1941-1943; title: 24 Representations of the Blue Division in Memoir and Fiction; title: Part Seven: Nazis in Spain; title: 25 Spain's Neutral Holocaust: Memories of the Axis Alliance in Francoist and Post-Franco Spain, or "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Otto Skorzeny"; title: 26 Nazis, Real and Imagined, in Post-Second-World-War Spain; title: Part Eight: The Holocaust in Contemporary Spanish and Ladino Culture; title: 27 Memory and the Ethical Imagination: The Holocaust and Deportation to Mauthausen in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Theatre; title: 28 Audiovisual Production on the Republican Deportation and Spain as Haven of the Nazis