TY - JOUR
T1 - Surviving the Holocaust in Sepharad
T2 - Trudi Alexy's Story
AU - Linhard, Tabea Alexa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - This article examines the symbolic uses of the past-in this case, the mass conversions of Jews in fourteenth-century Spain and their consequences, the establishment of the Inquisition, the 1492 expulsion-in narratives of Jewish exiles in Spain during World War II. It focuses on Trudi Alexy's memoir, The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot, in which the author draws a spiritual connection between her exile in Spain in the 1940s and the struggles of crypto-Jews in earlier centuries, providing her narrative with a desired coherence in the face of the contradictory circumstances that led to deliverance from the Holocaust in Francoist Spain.
AB - This article examines the symbolic uses of the past-in this case, the mass conversions of Jews in fourteenth-century Spain and their consequences, the establishment of the Inquisition, the 1492 expulsion-in narratives of Jewish exiles in Spain during World War II. It focuses on Trudi Alexy's memoir, The Mezuzah in the Madonna's Foot, in which the author draws a spiritual connection between her exile in Spain in the 1940s and the struggles of crypto-Jews in earlier centuries, providing her narrative with a desired coherence in the face of the contradictory circumstances that led to deliverance from the Holocaust in Francoist Spain.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85184776565
U2 - 10.2979/his.2010.22.2.95
DO - 10.2979/his.2010.22.2.95
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85184776565
SN - 0935-560X
VL - 22
SP - 95
EP - 124
JO - History and Memory
JF - History and Memory
IS - 2
ER -