scholarly journals “Under the Pacifying Arms of the Cross.” The Valley of the Fallen: a Place of Imprisonment, Reconciliation and Social Reintegration in Spain (1940-1959)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Pablo De la Fuente de Pablo ◽  
Cezary Taracha
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Social Reintegration ◽  
The World ◽  
Communist Government ◽  
The Cross

The Valley of the Fallen is the monument that boasts the largest Christian cross in the world. Buried at its feet are tens of thousands of those who fought and fell during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). They rest in the Basilica of the Holy Cross together without any designation as to on which side they fought. The article focuses on the vicissitudes of the penitentiary colony made up mainly of Republican prisoners sentenced for serious crimes committed during the war. This monument, a symbol of atonement and reconciliation, has become the target of a relentless political onslaught carried out by the socialist and communist government and fuelled by a series of myths analysed in the article.

Flamenco and Modernism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Cauthery
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Though practitioners perceive Andalusia as the form’s spiritual and artistic home, flamenco is taught and performed in cities around the world. Modern flamenco evolved from the "Café Cantante" period or "Golden Age" of flamenco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with its widespread introduction outside of Spain occurring as a result of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Flamenco was absorbed into, and transmitted by, popular culture through its inclusion as an exotic divertissement in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, and the films of director Carlos Saura in the 1980s. These films and their associated imagery created an impression of flamenco as exotic, virtuosic, and gendered—with overt connections to bull-fighting, toreadors, and Romani culture.

Recognition of Belligerency and the Spanish War

1937 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vernon A. O'Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Illegal Acts ◽  
Legal Sense ◽  
High Seas

Few problems raised by the Spanish civil war are more interesting than those growing out of the fact that a state of war, in the legal sense, does not exist; belligerent rights have been accorded to neither of the contestants by third Powers. Consequently, on January 8 of this year, Germany turned over to the rebel authorities two Spanish loyalist vessels captured in retaliation to an “act of piracy”—an indictment earned by the loyalist government for its seizure of the German freighter, Palos. One may feel justifiably surprised that a government almost universally recognized as legitimate can be charged with piratical activities. Further reflection reveals that the Spanish situation presents many more questions concerning the rights and duties of the contestants as against third parties. In the absence of the recognition of belligerency, what are the rights of loyalist and rebel ships on the high seas? In the territorial waters of Spain? May the fascist or socialistic factions establish blockades? What are the powers and validity of their prize courts? Who is answerable for the illegal acts of the rebels should they lose—or be victorious? What claims will the Spanish Government have as against third Powers should one or the other prove successful? May the loyalist authorities by simple decree close to neutral trade the ports held by the insurgents? Moreover, how would all of these matters be affected if the maritime Powers of the world were to recognize the existence of a state of war, i.e., belligerency, in Spain? And, finally, in view of the magnitude and duration of the struggle, is there any justification for withholding such recognition?

scholarly journals TIKKUN OLAM AND TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITY: JEWISH VOLUNTEERS IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
Raanan Rein
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
General Population ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
North American ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Tikkun Olam ◽  
The World ◽  
Transnational Solidarity ◽  
Very High

The number of Jewish volunteers who joined the International Brigades (IB) in order to defend the Spanish Republic against the Nationalist rebels was very high. Their presence among volunteers from each nation was in most cases greatly disproportionate to their representation in the general population of those countries. Many of these volunteers held internationalist views, and the idea of emphasizing their Jewish identity was alien to them. But in fact—as is reflected, for example, in the letters they sent from the Spanish trenches to their friends and relatives or in their memoirs—they also followed the Jewish mandate of tikkun olam, a Hebrew phrase meaning “repairing the world,” or showing responsibility for healing and transforming it. Many volunteers attempted to block, with their own bodies if need be, the Nazi and Fascist wave sweeping across Europe, thus defending both universal and Jewish causes. While there is a voluminous bibliography on the IB, less attention has been given to Jewish participation in the Spanish Civil War; and most studies of Jewish participation in the war focus on Jewish-European or on Jewish-North American volunteers. There is a conspicuous absence of historiography about Jewish-Argentines, and very little written on Jewish-Palestinians, in the Iberian conflict. This article looks at volunteers from these two countries and their motivation for taking an active part in the Spanish Civil War.

scholarly journals Spanish Civil War According to the Turkish Embassy Reports

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
savaş sertel
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
The World ◽  
Advanced Civilization ◽  
European Students ◽  
Umayyad Caliphate ◽  
Over Time

Spain throughout history has hosted many civilizations. With its climate,geography, fresh water resources and vegetation, it is one of the most favorableplaces to live in the world. Therefore, many communities lived here. Especially, theestablishment of the Umayyad Caliphate was a very big chance for Spain. In theperiods when the Islamic world was the most advanced civilization, the biggestphilosophers and scientists of Europe raised in this geography. Scholars such as IbnRüşt and Ibn Meymun taught European students. While, the Kings in Europe areproud of the several thousand volumes of books in their libraries bragged, 400thousand volumes of books existed in the library of the Andalusian Caliphate. Thedestroyed Muslim and Jews with the Reconquista took also the richness and thecivilization of Spain. By contrast, Spain has found something new: Geographicaldiscoveries and gold. After these events, Spain became one of the world's largestcolonial empire, but in XIX and XX. Century, Spain lost power and withdraws to theIberian peninsula Over time, Spain has become one of Europe's most powerlesscountries sicne their economy was based on primitive agriculture. In this process,the Kingdom, dictatorships, military coups and republics were established. In theseprocesses Spain has seen continuous coups and coup attempts. In 1936, the armyhad rebelled once more against the legitimate Government. However this time therebels were supported by the foreign powers. Imperialist States were the financiersof the bloody civil war occurred between 1936-1939.

scholarly journals General Franco as Military Leader

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 21-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Preston
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Military Assistance ◽  
Military Leader ◽  
The World ◽  
El Cid ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Success

BOTH during his lifetime, and after his death, General Franco was reviled by his enemies on the left and subjected to the most absurd adulation by his admirers on the right. As the victor in a bloody civil war which inflamed passions throughout the world, that is hardly surprising. Leaving aside his personal political success in remaining in power for nearly four decades, his victory in the Spanish Civil War was his greatest and most glorious achievement, something reflected in the judgements of detractors and hagiographers alike. For the left, Franco the general was a slow-witted mediocrity whose battlefield triumphs were owed entirely to the unstinting military assistance of Hitler and Mussolini. For the right, Franco the general was the twentieth-century incarnation of Alexander the Great, of Napoleon and of the great warrior hero of Spanish legend, El Cid.

Gabriela Mistral, Virginia Woolf, and the Writing of the Spanish Civil War

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
International Network ◽  
Gabriela Mistral ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Cultural Communities

This chapter traces the cultural intersections between Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral and Virginia Woolf, particularly through their aesthetic responses to the Spanish Civil War. A search for pacifist visions during the Spanish War led to the creation of transatlantic women’s modernist networks marked by anti-war, anti-imperialist, and anti-patriarchal ethical engagements. It argues that Mistral and Woolf were part of a web of transnational cultural communities within metropolitan centres such as London and Buenos Aires that were instrumental in the development of an international network of women’s writers preoccupied with the rise of fascism in Europe and the rest of the world.

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