EtniXX team wishes to congratulate our dearest colleague Daniela Flesler on this important award sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
The journey of The Memory Work of Jewish Spain begins with the 2015 law granting Spanish nationality to the descendants of Jews expelled in 1492 as the latest example of a widespread phenomenon in contemporary Spain, the “re-discovery” of its Jewish heritage. From there, the book examines the implications of reclaiming this memory through the analysis of a comprehensive range of emerging cultural practices, political initiatives and institutions in the context of the long history of Spain’s ambivalence towards its Jewish past. Through oral interviews, analyses of museums, newly reconfigured “Jewish quarters,” excavated Jewish sites, popular festivals, tourist brochures, literature and art, the book explores what happens when these initiatives are implemented at the local level in cities and towns throughout Spain, and how they affect Spain’s present. https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/events/71st-national-jewish-book-awards-celebration
A complete list of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award winners and finalists can be found here.