The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, book co-authored by our colleagues Daniela Flesler and Adrián Pérez Melgosa, has won the 2021 National Jewish Book Award, in the category Sephardic Culture, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council. A complete list of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award winners and finalists can be found here.
The Memory Work of Jewish Spain, published in December 2020 by Indiana University Press, explores the implications of reclaiming a Sephardic 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.”
Daniela Flesler is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and specializes in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies, with a focus on contemporary Spain’s negotiations of cultural identity. Adrián Pérez-Melgosa is Associate Professor in Hispanic Language and Literature and Director of the Stony Brook’s Humanities Institute. His research and publications focus on the intervention of visual, performative and written narratives on the shaping of collective identities in the Americas and Europe. Congratulations to our dear colleagues!
