Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War

Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 265
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781472513793
ISBN-13 : 1472513797
Rating : 4/5 (797 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War by : Gerben Zaagsma

Download or read book Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War written by Gerben Zaagsma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War discusses the participation of volunteers of Jewish descent in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, focusing particularly on the establishment of the Naftali Botwin Company, a Jewish military unit that was created in the Polish Dombrowski Brigade. Gerben Zaagsma analyses the symbolic meaning of the participation of Jewish volunteers and the Botwin Company both during and after the civil war. He puts this participation in the broader context of Jewish involvement in the left and Jewish/non-Jewish relations in the communist movement and beyond. To this end, the book examines representations of Jewish volunteers in the Parisian Yiddish press (both communist and non-communist). In addition, it analyses the various ways in which Jewish volunteers and the Botwin Company have been commemorated after WWII, tracing how discourses about Jewish volunteers became decisively shaped by post-Holocaust debates on Jewish responses to fascism and Nazism, and discusses claims that Jewish volunteers can be seen as 'the first Jews to resist Hitler with arms'.


Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War Related Books

Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Gerben Zaagsma
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-06 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

GET EBOOK

Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War discusses the participation of volunteers of Jewish descent in the International Brigade
The International Brigades
Language: en
Pages: 721
Authors: Giles Tremlett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

GET EBOOK

** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** 'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane The fir
The Lincoln Brigade
Language: en
Pages: 105
Authors: William Loren Katz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-15 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

GET EBOOK

THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against
Our Fight
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Alvah Cecil Bessie
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Amerikanske frivillige som deltog i den spanske borgerkrig beretter om deres erindringer fra krigen.
Unlikely Warriors
Language: en
Pages: 451
Authors: Richard Baxell
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-06 - Publisher: Aurum

GET EBOOK

When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and