Memorias Y Lugares de Memoria de Europe

This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...

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New contacts between Spain and Jewish communities, especially Sephardic, were established during the Moroccan campaign (1859-60) and through diplomatic activity in the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the time of the pogroms (1881-82), starting a public debate on the possibility of a return of the Jews to Spain. The Sagasta government and the liberals wanted to capitalize on the Jewish issue in order to forge an image of openness and Europeanism, and to attract Jewish capital. The conservative opposition, while recognizing the Jewish contribution to Spanish culture and condemning antisemitism,...

La configuración del pasado, permanentemente en cuestión, entraña una disputa política que nunca se limita a este, sino que atañe también a cómo nos situamos ante el futuro. Este libro analiza la lucha por establecer un relato hegemónico de la historia reciente de España que tuvo lugar a caballo entre los siglos XX y XXI. En ella los novelistas españoles tuvieron un protagonismo muy relevante. La querella sobre la Segunda República, la Guerra Civil y la posguerra conllevó una confrontación en torno al significado de la Transición y su legado. Desde una perspectiva...