New Article: Voices from a Lost World
Under this title, Judith Rideout, member of our research network, presents her study of three articles published by Benito Alonso in the modernist journal "Gente Vieja" on Sephardic culture.
Under this title, Judith Rideout, member of our research network, presents her study of three articles published by Benito Alonso in the modernist journal "Gente Vieja" on Sephardic culture.
When asked to conceptualise the traditional Spanish-speaking world, most people think of Spain and her former imperial territories, and historical studies of the Hispanic press are a reflection of that fact. Few Hispanic scholars think to include the Sephardic Jewish diaspora as part of the Hispanosphere, despite the fact that their abandonment of Spanish territory after 1492 did not mean that they abandoned their hispanidad.
The magazine Gente Vieja, as the title might suggest, took pride in being a platform for an older generation of writers, at a time when a new wave of modernist literary and artistic styles, associated with the younger generation, were very much in vogue. Far from trying to compete with these younger writers, the contributors to Gente Vieja made a feature of their seniority, with the first issue proudly stating the age of the writer alongside their name.