Una reflexión sobre el judaísmo desde el exilio republicano español: sobre Arte y Torá , libro inédito de Máximo Josxé Kahn

Abstract

For most Spanish Republican exiles, the Jewish people had been, like them, victim of fascism and religious intolerance. The solidarity that united them against a common enemy, however, didn't lead to the forging of common projects or original reflection on Judaism, absent even in a writer of Jewish origins like Max Aub. The work of the essayist and novelist Máximo José Kahn is therefore all the more exceptional. Born in Germany, he emigrated in 1921 to Spain, whose nationality he adopted, and went into exile at the fall of the Second Republic. After learning of the genocide committed against the European Jews, Kahn initiated a radical reflection on the future of Judaism, which he developed in several Argentinean publications, and especially in his unpublished book Arte y Torá, completed shortly before his death, that was considered disappeared and whose main guidelines are outlined in this article.