Conference

Antisemitismo, oportunismo y memoria selectiva (Antisemitism, opportunism and selective memory).

The Franco regime and the Jews

Held by

Alejandro Baer, CSIC

Presented by

Toni Morant, professor of the Universitat de València

Alejandro Baer is a scientific researcher of the Anthropology department of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. PhD in Sociology since 2003 (Complutense University of Madrid) he has been professor at the UCM, the Universtät Bayreuth and the Ludwig Maximilian Universtät of Munich. Between 2012 and 2022 he was Sociology professor and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has published the books Holocausto. Recuerdo y representación (2006), El testimonio audiovisual. Imagen y memoria del Holocausto (2005) and Memory and Forgetting in the post-Holocaust Era. The ethics of never again (co-authored with Natan Sznaider, 2017). 

In May his book titled Antisemitismo. El eterno retorno de la cuestión judía will see the light of day.

This conference addresses the behaviours, actions and politics of the Franco regime regarding the persecuted Jews of the Nazi Europe. The history linking Spain with the Holocaust is complex and full of subtleties which have given way to myths that are still believed nowadays. Was Franco a Nazi collaborator or a saviour of Jews? This conference addresses both sides of the Franco regime, history and memory, in regards to the Jew situation and points out as well the echoes of this topic in the political debates of the Spanish recent past.

Free entry, limited capacity

Leaflet

Aula d'Història i Memòria Democràtica, Servei de Cultura Universitària UV.