Max Aub and Israel: Imposible Sinaí (E.S.TH.E.R. Project)

Max Aub is a Spanish writer born in Paris in 1903. His parents were Jewish but he didn’t practice Jewish religion. Nevertheless, during his life, Aub faced many times Jewish political issue. His plays of the 1940s (De algún tiempo a esta parte, San Juan, Comedia que no acaba), for example, are the first Spanish literary works devoted to Jewish persecutions in Europe. Among his later works, the poems of Imposible Sinaí, inspired in Six-day War of 1967, stand out. This work, written just in 1967, after his stay as a visiting professor in Hebrew Jerusalem University, was published only in 1982, after his death. My paper aims to analyse this quite unknown work in the context of the varied literary production of his author. This study is part of The E.S.THE.R. Project (Enquiry on Sephardic Theatrical Representation).