Maite benet biography

Mapping Disidentification through Documentary: Martí Sans’s L’estigma?

Promoting Identification through Mass Televisual Culture: Cuéntame cómo pasó

Conclusion

The small size of the Jewish population in Spain today—“few in number, indistinguishable, and therefore ‘invisible’ ”—stands in asymmetrical relationship to the growing number of educational venues and cultural products that seek to introduce participants to Judaism and its traditions.¹ In the sphere of literature, Jewish and specifically Sephardi and converso characters and storylines not infrequently appear as the subject of contemporary Spanish narrative, most commonly in historical novels set in medieval and early modern Spain or in works of fiction about the Holocaust. By contrast, audiovisual culture—film and, to a lesser extent, television—lags behind in contemporary Spanish cultural production that explores Sepharad and other Jewish topics. Unlike the proliferation of Jewish-

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