Abstract
This article explores some of the fictional work of Esther Bendahan, one of the very few Spanish writers of Moroccan Sephardi descent living in Spain today. Her novels, Sonar con Hispania (co-written with Esther Benari, 2002) and Dejalo, ya volveremos (2006), as well as her short story Condecoracion (2016), explore what it means to return to Sepharad in contemporary Spain. Bendahan's writing captures with particular poignancy the difficulty of avoiding well-established cliches when speaking for and about Sephardi Jews in Spain. These time-sanctioned myths still provide the available grammar through which it is possible to speak, and to be listened to, as Sephardi Jews in Spain. This article shows how Bendahan's fictional work explores and negotiates with this available grammar.
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