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The Holocaust and Latin America

Autor: Daniela Gleizer , Emmanuel Kahan , Yael Siman

Número de Páginas: 378

This book explores the history of the Holocaust in relation to Latin America. It is estimated that about 100,000 Jewish refugees immigrated to the region between 1933 and 1945. Despite the critical role Latin America played in sheltering Jewish refugees from Nazism, the region has remained largely on the margins of Holocaust studies. The volume adopts a global perspective, examining the Holocaust’s connections to Latin America, both as a region and as a mosaic of distinct national contexts. Structured around three key themes —migration, settlement, and memory— the book not only addresses the immigration policies of Latin American governments but also amplifies the experiences and voices of Jewish survivors who found refuge in this culturally diverse region.

Cet étrange nazi qui sauva mon père

Autor: François Heisbourg

Número de Páginas: 416

C’est à un mystère que s’attelle ici François Heisbourg, relatant le parcours de l’étrange baron Franz von Hoiningen. Cet officier allemand qui traverse deux guerres mondiales, s’engage spontanément dans le parti nazi, puis sauve des centaines de Juifs et de résistants – dont le père de l’auteur –, qui s’évade d’Allemagne avec la Gestapo aux trousses après avoir été « mouillé » dans le complot contre Hitler, finit son odyssée dans les bras de sa femme au Luxembourg et disparaît de tous les écrans radar. Au point que ce récit aurait pu s’appeler « L’homme sans visage », tant il a été difficile de trouver une trace photographique de lui. Qui était-il ? Comment passe-t-on à un moment donné du mal au bien ? Quelle est l’alchimie de cette « banalité du bien » ?

Persécutions et entraides dans la France occupée

Autor: Jacques Sémelin

Número de Páginas: 1098

Cette question était encore un " point aveugle " dans l'historiographie de la Shoah. Certains ont même parlé d'une " énigme française ". Au terme d'une enquête de plusieurs années, riche de témoignages et d'archives, écrite d'une plume sensible et sereine, Jacques Semelin apporte une contribution décisive. Il brosse un tableau radicalement autre de la France occupée. Une société plurielle et changeante, où la délation coexiste avec l'entraide, où l'antisémitisme n'empêche pas la solidarité des petits gestes. Sans jamais minimiser l'horreur du crime, ce livre monumental ouvre une nouvelle période dans notre lecture des années d'Occupation. Il fera date. Directeur de recherche au CNRS (CERI) et professeur à Sciences Po, Jacques Semelin est spécialiste de la résistance civile et des crimes de masse. Son livre Sans armes face à Hitler (1989), désormais considéré comme un classique, vient d'être réédité. Il a aussi publié Purifier et détruire. Usages politiques des massacres et génocides (2005), ouvrage traduit aux États-Unis par la Columbia University Press.

Les âmes tièdes

Autor: Nina Valbousquet

Número de Páginas: 505

L'ouverture exceptionnelle des archives du pontificat de Pie XII (1939-1958), en 2020, n'a pas mis fin aux controverses autour des silences du pape face aux atrocités nazies. Mais, au-delà des polémiques, que révèlent ces nouvelles sources ? Qu'apportent-elles à notre compréhension de la Shoah, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et du pouvoir religieux ? Permettent-elles de saisir plus finement les profondes ambivalences du Vatican, entre charité et préjugé, face aux persécutions antijuives ? S'appuyant sur trois années de dépouillement de ces fonds considérables à Rome, Les Âmes tièdes restituent les motivations, réflexions et dilemmes des personnes impliquées dans cette histoire, leurs voix mais aussi leurs silences. Dépassant une approche classique focalisée sur le pape et sur la diplomatie, cet ouvrage éclaire les enjeux politiques, humanitaires, religieux et culturels des choix du Saint-Siège. Il resitue cette question dans la longue durée des relations entre l'Église et les Juifs, afin d'évaluer le poids d'une culture pluriséculaire d'hostilité dans les réponses du Vatican face aux persécutions antisémites, avant et pendant la guerre, mais aussi...

Échec et mat au paradis - Prix Renaudot Essai 2024

Autor: Sébastien Lapaque

Número de Páginas: 234

Une enquête intime sur le suicide de Stefan Zweig à Petrópolis, au Brésil, le 23 février 1942, peu de temps après sa visite à Georges Bernanos. Bâti autour de la conversation que Sébastien Lapaque imagine entre ces deux géants de la littérature du XXe siècle, ce récit miraculeusement lumineux se nourrit de plus de 25 ans de recherches, de voyages et de rencontres. Entre le saccage nazi de la vieille Europe et l’avènement d’un fascisme tropical, une histoire politique et littéraire fascinante, une réflexion poignante sur la tentation du désespoir mais aussi un grand livre d’alerte.

Exilio, diáspora y retorno

Autor: Luis Roniger , Leonardo Senkman , Saúl Sosnowski , Mario Sznajder

Número de Páginas: 390

Este libro estudia, desde el análisis de las trayectorias personales y la inserción institucional, cómo Argentina, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay se vieron afectados por las experiencias del exilio y el posexilio. Se intenta revelar cómo la variada experiencia transnacional de aquellos intelectuales, académicos, artistas, profesionales y activistas políticos y sociales contribuyó, durante y luego del destierro, a democratizar el campo cultural y a renovar algunas de las ideas e instituciones de estas sociedades. El exilio y el destierro son algunos de los legados del autoritarismo en estos países; se trató de un proceso que incluyó proscripción, desplazamientos forzados, expatriaciones y diásporas emergentes. Por medio del análisis de estas sociedades se pretende reconocer, describir y descifrar sus diferentes caminos en el período posdictatorial. Muchos de los desplazados tenían un capital social y cultural previo que experimentó diversos cambios personales y organizativos a medida que se adaptaban a los diversos ámbitos culturales, lingüísticos, sociales y políticos de los países anfitriones. El retorno no es el resultado “natural” del fin de las dictaduras,...

Las tres muertes de K.

Autor: Bernardo Kucinski

Número de Páginas: 163

"Todo en este libro es invención, aunque casi todo ha ocurrido". La desaparición de su hija lleva a K. a una incesante búsqueda para descubrir su paradero durante la dictadura militar brasileña de Ernesto Geisel. Su investigación le llevará también a afrontar sus sentimientos de culpa y a descubrir la identidad militante de su hija. Esta es la historia de una de las miles de desapariciones ocurridas en gran parte de Sudamérica durante las décadas de los sesenta y setenta, una de las más brutales consecuencias de la política estadounidense durante la Guerra Fría, en su "lucha" contra el comunismo. En este libro, realidad y ficción no funcionan como elementos contrapuestos sino como aspectos complementarios en la historia. El origen de esta novela reside en la desaparición en 1974 de Wilson Silva y su pareja Ana Rosa Kucinski, hermana del autor. Esta obra ha recibido una mención de honor en el premio Portugal Telecom de Literatura 2012.

Entre el Islam y occidente

Autor: Mercedes García-arenal

Número de Páginas: 372

Los estudios aquí incluidos se enmarcan todos en el área geográfica que comprende el actual territorio de Marruecos extendido por el Este hasta incluir Orán. Se trata del territorio norteafricano de más intensa imbricación con la Península Ibérica y el único en no estar bajo el dominio otomano. La intensidad de las relaciones entre la Península y el Magreb se debe en gran parte a la población judía, verdadera mediadora entre estos dos conjuntos religiosos, culturales y políticos. Los judíos tuvieron que vivir en un ambiente fronterizo y adoptaron estrategias que dejaron una profunda huella en el judaísmo moderno. En este libro se habla de judíos y también de conversos al cristianismo o de criptojudíos. Los contactos de los judíos magrebíes con las comunidades peninsulares son constantes y la existencia de conversos, de «cristianos nuevos», es uno de los problemas más importantes de los primeros siglos de la Edad Moderna española. La historia de estas comunidades forma parte, pues, de la historia de España como de la del Magreb: aparente paradoja que estas actas contribuyen a esclarecer y definir en su justa escala.

Inmigración internacional en Chile

Autor: Baldomero, Estrada Turra

Número de Páginas: 215

A través de once artículos de historiadores, sociologos y antropologos, se analizan diversos temas relacionados con los movimientos migratorios en Chile desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad. Se trata de enfoques generales como también de aspectos particulares de algunas colectividades, pero que apuntan a situaciones propias de todos los movimientos migratorios. El recorrido, a través del tiempo, revela que los problemas no son nuevos y ayudan a comprender la necesidad de contar con políticas públicas oportunas, y adecuadas a las circunstancias, en un contexto mundial de creciente globalización e internacionalización

Imperio Otomano en la Europa renacentista

Autor: Alain Servantie , Ramón Puig De La Bellacasa Alberola

Número de Páginas: 420

Los judíos en México

Autor: Corinne A. Krause

Número de Páginas: 267

La historia de los judíos en México entre 1857 y 1930 tiene una referencia fundamental: el estudio pionero de Corinne Krause. La historiadora estadounidense rastreó recursos bibliográficos, hemerográficos y documentales a ambos lados de la frontera.

El Holocausto

Autor: Dan Stone

Número de Páginas: 398

Una nueva historia reveladora sobre el Holocausto que reinterpreta los acontecimientos que creemos conocer y los traumas que pensábamos ya superados Este amplio ensayo sobre los orígenes intelectuales, la siniestra aplicación y las consecuencias del Holocausto rompe con todas las ideas estereotipadas que, en un gran ejercicio de complacencia moral, han fijado la barbarie en términos aceptables para la mirada actual. Dan Stone, director del Instituto de Investigación del Holocausto de Royal Holloway, desmonta el mito del «asesinato industrial», que solo se aplicó en momentos y lugares muy concretos, para revelar en su máxima inmundicia la aniquilación cotidiana y ambulante de los judíos por toda Europa. La conclusión más obvia es que no existió un genocidio limpio y eficiente, sino una forma delirante y sucia de eliminar al otro. El Holocausto: Una historia inacabada enfrenta al lector a la cruda realidad del exterminio judío y de su memoria en una época de creciente nacionalismo y xenofobia. A través de documentos oficiales, diarios, testimonios de posguerra e incluso de la ficción se muestra no solo el día de antes, sino el de después, cuando los escasos...

Los caminos de los libros

Autor: Márcia Abreu

Número de Páginas: 322

Río de Janeiro, periodo colonial. La vida no era fácil para alguien que quería leer un libro. La Corona portuguesa impidió la impresión en Brasil hasta que la familia real se mudó allí durante el periodo de las invasiones napoleónicas. Antes y después del cambio, el contacto con los libros estuvo fuertemente controlado por los organismos de censura, que eran responsables de sancionar lo que se podía leer, escribir e imprimir. Sin embargo, no era imposible tener acceso a los libros. Sometiéndose a las exigencias de la censura o siguiendo los caminos de la ilegalidad, las obras llegaban a manos de quienes las buscaban: textos religiosos y de oficios eran muy apetecidos, pero también las bellas letras —especialmente la novela— gozaban de especial interés. Los caminos de los libros cuenta una parte de esta historia: cómo fue la censura en Portugal y Brasil, descubre los títulos más populares y arroja luces sobre los modos de lectura y las personas que habitaron ese mundo.

El fin del armario

Autor: Bruno Bimbi

Número de Páginas: 331

Publicado por primera vez en Marea Editorial y reeditado en cinco países, El fin del armario constituye una investigación fundamental para comprender los avances y luchas que continúan pendientes en el siglo XXI para que la comunidad LGBTIQ goce la plenitud de sus derechos. En esta reedición, publicada exclusivamente en ebook, Bruno Bimbi suma el capítulo República de Gilead sobre la homofobia en el discurso y las políticas de Jair Bolsonaro en Brasil y el surgimiento de grupos de extrema derecha en España y Estados Unidos. Además, narra la influencia de las religiones y las legislaciones que a nivel mundial sostienen los crímenes de odio, los prejuicios y la discriminación a la transexualidad. El fin del armario es una obra imprescindible para quien desee tener una mirada actualizada, global y sensible sobre una de las comunidades que más se hizo oír en los últimos años.

Memoria latente

Autor: Maxine Lowy

Número de Páginas: 283

Un lejano y largo país llamado Chile fue el destino para una generación de inmigrantes y refugiados judíos que anhelaban encontrar un mundo mejor. Muchos llevaban consigo una historia de marginalización y persecución arraigada en el interior de su ser. A partir de septiembre de 1973, cuando algunos de esos mismos refugiados, sus hijos o nietos, fueron víctimas del terrorismo de Estado, la institucionalidad judía enfrentó una encrucijada moral. Memoria latente releva los nexos entre la identidad judía y la memoria histórica, en el marco de los desafíos enfrentados por la colectividad ante los atropellos a los derechos fundamentales cometidos en Chile durante la dictadura cívico-militar de Augusto Pinochet. Da cuenta también de procesos de reconocimiento y reencuentro comunitario, al retomar rutas de memoria y justicia trazadas desde la experiencia judía hacia todo lugar que emerge desde situaciones límites.

La copa de Leopoldstadt

Autor: David Voguel

Número de Páginas: 172

Una novela que transita por territorios inciertos, donde las derrotas, las traiciones y la crueldad conviven con amistades inquebrantables, enamoramientos, búsquedas de libertades y luchas por recuperar la memoria que algunos pretendieron incinerar. ¿Cuántas historias se esconden en el cáliz de un trofeo? ¿Cuántos sentimientos quedan grabados detrás de su brillo? ¿Sería capaz ese objeto, ligado a glorias pasadas, de rebelarse contra el olvido y transportar su mensaje al futuro? Con la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su preludio y sus consecuencias como telón de fondo, La copa de Leopoldstadt propone un recorrido histórico que se ramifica en muchas vidas. Entre ellas, la del club Hakoah de Viena y las de algunos de sus seguidores más fieles. Las de familias de inmigrantes judíos que, aun a la distancia, conservan y transmiten sus pasiones. La del húngaro Bela Guttmann, leyenda del fútbol mundial, que sobrevivió a la persecución nazi, que repartió su trayectoria entre Europa y Estados Unidos, y que en su etapa como entrenador también llegó a América del Sur, con un pasaje por Peñarol.

Entangled peripheries. New contributions to the history of Portugal and Morocco

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 254

The main aim of this volume is to explore the continuity of Portuguese-Moroccan relations before and, especially, after the classic period of the 11th-16th centuries. Its title, “Entangled peripheries”, is a conceptual attempt to account for the contradiction between the resilience of bilateral contacts and exchanges and its decreasing relevance for both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. Although most chapters focus on topics of the 18th-20th centuries, the contributions dealing with the medieval and early modern periods provide a long durée perspective typical of “entangled history”. Other distinctive elements of this historiographical current are also present, such as the circulations and networks of people and objects and the supranational and regional actors and processes, which help situate Portugal and Morocco as “peripheries”. The volume is divided in three sections: “Marginal circulations”, “Facts, histories, fictions” and “Beyond nationalism and colonialism”. The first one presents case-studies of displacements of ethnically or socially marginal groups between Morocco and Portugal between the 15th and the 20th centuries. The last section’s...

Indésirables

Autor: Diane Afoumado

Número de Páginas: 305

Au cours des années 30, le durcissement constant de l’Allemagne hitlérienne envers ses concitoyens juifs contraint bientôt ces derniers à l’émigration. En juillet 1938, à l’initiative du président américain Franklin D. Roosevelt, se tient à Évian, en France, une conférence internationale destinée à trouver un refuge à des dizaines de milliers d’exilés, juifs pour la plupart. Sous l’égide de la SDN et de l’Office Nansen, elle réunit une trentaine d’États, essentiellement européens et sud-américains. L’auteur décrit l’évolution de la crise des réfugiés après la Première Guerre mondiale et les tentatives pour répondre à ce phénomène nouveau à l’échelle internationale, notamment à travers le travail de la SDN et de l’Office Nansen. Quelles solutions proposer ? Quel refuge offrir à ces exilés ? Les États sont-ils prêts à les accueillir, quitte à braver une partie de l’opinion publique ? Dans un contexte marqué par le nationalisme et un climat grandissant de méfiance, quel effort peut-on demander aux démocraties occidentales ? Et comment concilier un discours d’ouverture et d’accueil alors que, à partir de l’été...

A Companion to the Holocaust

Autor: Simone Gigliotti , Hilary Earl

Número de Páginas: 706

Provides a cutting-edge, nuanced, and multi-disciplinary picture of the Holocaust from local, transnational, continental, and global perspectives Holocaust Studies is a dynamic field that encompasses discussions on human behavior, extremity, and moral action. A diverse range of disciplines – history, philosophy, literature, social psychology, anthropology, geography, amongst others – continue to make important contributions to its scholarship. A Companion to the Holocaust provides exciting commentaries on current and emerging debates and identifies new connections for research. The text incorporates new language, geographies, and approaches to address the precursors of the Holocaust and examine its global consequences. A team of international contributors provides insightful and sophisticated analyses of current trends in Holocaust research that go far beyond common conceptions of the Holocaust’s causes, unfolding and impact. Scholars draw on their original research to interpret current, agenda-setting historical and historiographical debates on the Holocaust. Six broad sections cover wide-ranging topics such as new debates about Nazi perpetrators, arguments about the causes ...

The Holocaust

Autor: David M. Crowe

Número de Páginas: 539

This book details the history of the Jews, their two-millennia-old struggle with a larger Christian world, and the historical anti-Semitism that created the environment that helped pave the way for the Holocaust. It helps students develop the interpretative skills in the fields of history and law.

Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America

Autor: Malena Chinski , Alan Astro

Número de Páginas: 263

Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America presents Yiddish culture as it developed in an area seldom associated with the language. Yet several countries—Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay—became centers for Yiddish literature, journalism, political activism, theater, and music. Chapters by historians, linguists, and literary critics explore the flourishing of Yiddish there in the early 20th century, its retraction in the 1960’s, and contemporary endeavors to rescue this marginalized legacy. Topics discussed in the volume include the literary figures of the “Jewish gaucho” and the peddler, the regional Yiddish press, the communal struggle against trafficking in women, cultural responses to the Holocaust, intra-Jewish conflict during the Cold War, debates on assimilation versus tradition, and emergent postvernacular Yiddish. "The editors explain the renewed interest in—or 'revival' of—Yiddish in Latin America from the 1980s on as part of a broader global phenomenon. This volume sheds light on that phenomenon, while also being a part of it." -Amy Kerner, Brown University, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina 30.1 (2019) "As a...

Holocaust: Responses to the persecution and mass murder of the Jews

Autor: David Cesarani , Sarah Kavanaugh

Número de Páginas: 448

A Question of Identity

Autor: Renee Levine Melammed

Número de Páginas: 253

In 1391 many of the Jews of Spain were forced to convert to Christianity, creating a new group whose members would be continually seeking a niche for themselves in society. The question of identity was to play a central role in the lives of these and later converts whether of Spanish or Portuguese heritage, for they could not return to Judaism as long as they remained on the Peninsula, and their place in the Christian world would never be secure. This book considers the history of the Iberian conversos-both those who remained in Spain and Portugal and those who emigrated. Wherever they resided the question of identity was inescapable. The exile who chose France or England, where Jews could not legally reside, was faced with different considerations and options than the converso who chose Holland, a newly formed Protestant country where Jews had not previously resided. Choosing Italy entailed a completely different set of options and dilemmas. Renée Levine Melammed compares and contrasts the lives of the New Christians of the Iberian Peninsula with those of these countries and the development of their identity and sense of ethnic solidarity with "those of the Nation." Exploring...

The Imaginary Synagogue: Anti-Jewish Literature in the Portuguese Early Modern World (16th-18th Centuries)

Autor: Bruno Feitler

Número de Páginas: 216

This book scrutinizes literary works based on Judaism, Jews and their descendants, written or printed by the Portuguese, from the forced conversion of Jews in 1497, until the ending of the distinction between New and Old Christians in 1773. It tries to understand what motivated this vast literary production, its different currents, and how they evolved. Additionally, it studies the image of New Christians and seeks the reasons for the perpetuation of this perception of Jewish descendants in the Early Modern Portuguese world. The Imaginary Synagogue seeks to identify which Jews and which ‘synagogue’ those authors constructed in their texts and their reasons for doing so, and offers conclusions on the self-affirmed Catholic importance of this literary current.

Opera in the Tropics

Autor: Rogério Budasz

Número de Páginas: 485

Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s. Author Rogério Budasz delves into the practices of the actors, singers, poets, and composers who created and performed Jesuit moral plays, Spanish comedias, and Portuguese vernacular operas and entremezes during the colonial period, as well as the Italian operas that celebrated the new independent nation in 1822. A Brazilian producer claimed in 1825 that the goal of music-theater was to instruct, entertain, and distract the population. Budasz argues that this threefold goal had in fact been present throughout the colonial period, in different combinations and with different purposes, at the hands of missionaries, intellectuals, bureaucrats, political leaders, and cultural producers. While Budasz demonstrates a continuity from Portuguese theatrical practices, primarily through the circulation of artists and repertory, he also examines a number of localized departures from the metropolitan model, particularly in the ethnic and gender profile of theatrical workers, in the modifications determined by local tastes, priorities, and materials, and in the political use...

On the Edge of the Holocaust

Autor: Edna Aizenberg

Número de Páginas: 202

Sheds new light on the views and attitudes of Latin American writers during the Nazi era

The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust

Autor: Zohar Segev

Número de Páginas: 338

Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine but did not see it as an end in itself. They strove to establish a Jewish state and to rehabilitate Diaspora Jewish life, two goals they saw as mutually complementary. The efforts of the WJC are put into the context of the serious difficulties facing the American Jewish community and its representative institutions during and after the war, as they tried to act as an ethnic minority within American society.

Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1945

Autor: Daniela Gleizer

Número de Páginas: 354

Unwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country’s blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered “inassimilable” and therefore “undesirable.” Through her analysis of Mexico’s role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country’s traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.

Brazilian Belonging

Autor: Michael Rom

Número de Páginas: 392

Brazilian Belonging examines a century of Brazilian Jewish political activism, from the onset of Jewish mass migration to Brazil in the early 1920s to the present. The home of the largest Jewish community living in a nonwhite-majority country in the world, and a country that has witnessed extended periods of democratic and dictatorial rule, Brazil offers an important window for rethinking Jewish ideas about race and nation, democracy and dictatorship, and local and global forms of state violence. In this book, Michael Rom highlights the important roles Brazilian Jews played in prominent social movements—movements that contested the meaning of the discourse of racial democracy, fought against the military dictatorship, and sought out new political possibilities following the return of democratic rule. He draws on extensive research—including previously unexamined secret police and intelligence records, the Brazilian Yiddish press, and oral history interviews—to illuminate decades of Brazilian Jewish activism under both democratic and dictatorial regimes. Offering the first study of modern Jewish politics and Latin American ethnic belonging throughout the Cold War, this book...

Righteous or Not

Autor: Mordecai Paldiel

Número de Páginas: 521

Since 1963, Yad Vashem, the Israeli national Holocaust remembrance museum, has acted to identify and honor non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. This book discusses some of the issues raised in the debates whether to accord the title of Righteous Among the Nations to candidates of this honor based on established criteria, that led to the approval of some and non-acceptance of others.

Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945–2023

Autor: Manuel Bragança , Peter Tame

Número de Páginas: 370

This edited volume is a sequel to, and a development of, The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936–2016 (2016). It focuses on the six major European countries and states that remained officially neutral throughout the Second World War, namely Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Vatican. Its transnational, comparative, and interdisciplinary approach addresses complex questions pertaining to collective remembrance, national policies and politics, and intellectual as well as cultural responses to neutrality during and after the conflict. The contributions are from a broad range of scholars working across the disciplines of history, literature, film, media, and cultural studies. Their thought-provoking chapters challenge many assumptions about neutrality in the post-war European and global context, thereby filling a gap in the existing scholarship. Common themes that run through the volume include the intertwined and dynamic links between neutrality and moral responsibility during and after the Second World War, the importance of memory politics and popular culture in shaping collective memories, and the impact of the Holocaust in shifting...

Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941–1942

Autor: Jürgen Matthäus

Número de Páginas: 585

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941–1942 is the third volume in a five-volume set published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that offers a new perspective on Holocaust history. Incorporating historical documents and accessible narrative, this volume sheds light on the personal and public lives of Jews during a period when Hitler’s triumph in Europe seemed assured, and the mass murder of millions had begun in earnest. The primary source material presented here, including letters, diary entries, photographs, transcripts of speeches, newspaper articles, and official memos and reports, makes this volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion.

Salazar

Autor: Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses

Número de Páginas: 700

Salazar: A Political Biography is the definitive biography of the longstanding Portuguese dictator. António de Oliveira Salazar entered the government of Portugal when Herbert Hoover was president and ended his political career at the end of the Johnson administration. He remained in power for forty years (1928–1968), one of the longest tenures in modern history. Unlike the other ‘great dictators’ of the twentieth century, Salazar, an academic, immersed himself in the minutiae of government and administration, maintaining a prodigious work rate until illness forced his retirement. He successfully managed his country’s finances despite the impact of the Great Depression, imposing a harsh policy of austerity. He then preserved Portugal’s neutrality during the Second World War, ultimately favouring Great Britain and the United States. But Salazar was at heart an extremely conservative, even reactionary statesman. He relied on secrecy and a police state to maintain the order which, he believed, was necessary to control progress. Rejecting the anti-colonialist movements in Asia and Africa, he plunged Portugal into a series of wars in Africa it could ill afford. Fully revised ...

Jewish Immigrants, Nationalism and Finance Sourcing in Argentina

Autor: Igal Aisenberg

Número de Páginas: 217

“The book represents an innovative and outstanding contribution to the economic, social, and business history of Argentina. It focuses on the factors that conditioned the emergence and development, between 1930 and the early 1960s, of large industrial enterprises founded by Jewish immigrants, with emphasis on the absence of community financial institutions to support their creation and expansion. lt is characterized both by the relevance of the issues it addresses and by the author's ability to conduct original and solid research based on a non-dogmatic conceptual framework, on the analysis of a wide variety of unexplored sources, and the virtuous combination of different scales of observation.” Professor Dr. María Inés Barbero, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Remembering World War II Refugees in Contemporary Portugal

Autor: Verena Lindemann Lino

Número de Páginas: 238

This book takes an innovative approach to the study of memories of transit and exile in Portugal between 1933 and 1945 in artistic media. Informed by contemporary debates within memory and translation studies, it develops a translational perspective on transcultural memory and explores its ethical implications. This study provides an in-depth analysis of Daniel Blaufuks’s inter-art project Sob Céus Estranhos, Domingos Amaral’s novel Enquanto Salazar Dormia and João Canijo’s documentary Fantasia Lusitana. It examines the heterocultural networks of signification that these artistic media mobilize to implicate the presence of World War II refugees in Portugal in contemporary negotiations of communality. By approaching memory through a translational lens on culture, this book also offers new perspectives on remediation, memory transfer and the ethical dimensions of remembrance in the context of transcultural memory and migration.

Portuguese Jews, New Christians, and ‘New Jews’

Autor: Claude B. Stuczynski , Bruno Feitler

Número de Páginas: 518

In Portuguese Jews, New Christians and ‘New Jews’ Claude B. Stuczynski and Bruno Feitler gather some of the leading scholars of the history of the Portuguese Jews and conversos in a tribute to their common friend and a renowned figure in Luso-Judaica, Roberto Bachmann, on the occasion of his 85th birthday. The texts are divided into five sections dealing with medieval Portuguese Jewish culture, the impact of the inquisitorial persecution, the wide range of converso identities on one side, and of the Sephardi Western Portuguese Jewish communities on the other, and the role of Portugal and Brazil as lands of refuge for Jews during the Second World War. This book is introduced by a comprehensive survey on the historiography on Portuguese Jews, New Christians and 'New Jews' and offers a contribution to Luso-Judaica studies

Conceptualizing Mass Violence

Autor: Navras J. Aafreedi , Priya Singh

Número de Páginas: 258

Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content, and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner. The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the twentieth century to the present. The volume studies ‘consciously enforced mass violence’ through an interdisciplinary approach and suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass violence in the global context. The...

Cartoon Conflicts

Autor: Richard Scully , Paulo Jorge Fernandes , Ritu Gairola Khanduri

Número de Páginas: 487

This edited collection of new research highlights the way in which the cartoon - long regarded as a staple of journalism and freedom of expression - faces new challenges in the twenty-first century that can be far better understood and appreciated if one takes an historical perspective. Current debates over the limits of freedom of expression, 'political correctness', and 'cancel culture' all have their precedents in past controversies over cartoons and caricature; indeed there is a definite continuum between these past instances of debate and their present manifestations. Chapters 2 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Hitler’s Jewish Refugees

Autor: Marion Kaplan

Número de Páginas: 377

An award-winning historian presents an emotional history of Jewish refugees biding their time in Portugal as they attempt to escape Nazi Europe This riveting book describes the experience of Jewish refugees as they fled Hitler to live in limbo in Portugal until they could reach safer havens abroad. Drawing attention not only to the social and physical upheavals of refugee life, Kaplan highlights their feelings as they fled their homes and histories while begging strangers for kindness. An emotional history of fleeing, this book probes how specific locations touched refugees’ inner lives, including the borders they nervously crossed or the overcrowded transatlantic ships that signaled their liberation.

Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America

Autor: Raanan Rein , Stefan Rinke , David M.k. Sheinin

Número de Páginas: 369

Scholarship on ethnicity in modern Latin America has traditionally understood the region’s various societies as fusions of people of European, indigenous, and/or African descent. These are often deployed as stable categories, with European or “white” as a monolith against which studies of indigeneity or blackness are set. The role of post-independence immigration from eastern and western Europe—as well as from Asia, Africa, and Latin-American countries—in constructing the national ethnic landscape remains understudied. The contributors of this volume focus their attention on Jewish, Arab, non-Latin European, Asian, and Latin American immigrants and their experiences in their “new” homes. Rejecting exceptionalist and homogenizing tendencies within immigration history, contributors advocate instead an approach that emphasizes the locally- and nationally-embedded nature of ethnic identification.