Salud Y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - Tapa blanda

Butwin, Joseph

 
9780252088629: Salud Y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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ISBN 10: 025208862X ISBN 13: 9780252088629
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2025

Sinopsis

Jewish volunteers made up almost one-third of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB) during the Spanish Civil War. Most belonged to a Communist Party focused on the antifascist goals of the Popular Front and faithful to the internationalist idea of erasing ethnicity, including Jewish ethnicity.

Joseph Butwin’s oral history presents conversations with ten Jewish veterans of the ALB. Recorded from 1992–94 in the wake of European communism’s collapse, the interviews explore the milieus that formed the volunteers. Immigrants established the secular Yiddish-speaking socialism that became a part of many Jewish American communities. Their children, reacting to economic depression and the rise of fascism, enlisted in the ALB. Butwin follows their stories from their youthful motives and choices through their lives as Jews and leftists, and records the reckonings that took place as they reflected on their past.

Insightful and revealing, Salud y Shalom explores the forces of identity and history that led young Jewish leftists to fight fascism.

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Joseph Butwin is an associate professor emeritus of English and Jewish studies at the University of Washington. He is the coauthor of Sholom Aleichem (1977).

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
025208862X
ISBN 13 
9780252088629
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Número de páginas
256
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9780252046513: Salud Y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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ISBN 10:  025204651X ISBN 13:  9780252046513
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2025
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