Jewish Spain - A Mediterranean Memory

Zusatztext "Linhard is an innovative cultural historian. In Jewish Spain , she has provided us with an illuminating and provocative meta-historiographical work, elaborated through a complex discussion with the most recent studies on memory and contemporary Judaism—one that will be indispensable for anyone seeking to understand this intricate and polysemic cultural construct." Informationen zum Autor Tabea Alexa Linhard is Associate Professor of Spanish, International and Area Studies, and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War (2005) and coeditor of Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era (2013). Klappentext Jewish Spain centers on representations of the historic relationship between Spain and Jews through key moments of the twentieth century, illuminating the ways in which the Judeo-Spanish past is continually revisited and revised. Zusammenfassung Jewish Spain centers on representations of the historic relationship between Spain and Jews through key moments of the twentieth century, illuminating the ways in which the Judeo-Spanish past is continually revisited and revised.

Product details

• Authors: Tabea Linhard, Tabea Alexa Linhard
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2014
• EAN: 9780804787390
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8739-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous