Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War

Front matter

RoutledgelCanada Blanch Studies om Contemporary Spain

UNTOLD STORIES OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

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Contents

List of Figures vii List of Contributors viii Introduction 1

1 Foreign Volunteering: New Trends in the Historiography 12 NIR ARIELLI

2 Madrid est prés de Berlin: An Untold Story from the Spanish Civil War in the German Federal Archive 26 SUSANNE ZEPP

Index

Figures

“Yael Gerson,” Kol Ha'am, February 1941, 1

A group of Jewish volunteers from Palestine. On the right is Yael Gerson, next to her is Pinchas Chefetz, and Arie Lev is on the left

Dora Birnbach-Levin next to her husband, Stefan, in Israel in the 1990s

Haya Meites with a fellow communist in Bethlehem in 1923 In memory of a Palestinian brigadista: Ali al-Khalek's recovered resting place, April 4, 1938

Ruth Rewald at age eighteen in 1924

Ruth with daughter Anja in August 1937

Ruth Rewald in exile in Paris

An aerial view of the North Stoneham Camp Basque Children's Camp, showing its division into sections Mealtime at the North Stoneham Basque Children's Camp Traditional Basque dances in the camp

Refugee children in North Stoneham giving the clenched fist salute

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Contributors

Esra Akkaya is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. She received her PhD in romance philology from the Freie Universitát Berlin, Germany.

Nir Arielli is Associate Professor of International History at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, and the author of From Byron to Bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers (2018).

Jorge Cáceres-Muñoz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of Extremadura, Spain. His research interests include the history of education in Spain and educational theory.

Shai Efrat is a scholar with a master's degree in Spanish and Latin American studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Her research focuses primarily on the intersection between flamenco and Francoism.

Omri Elmaleh is Raphael Morrison Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weather Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, the United States. His research centers on the circulation of people, artifacts, and ideas between Latin America and Iberia and the Middle East.

Mariano González-Delgado is a senior lecturer in history of education at Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, and the co-author of Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History (2020) and Historia de la Educación: pasado y presente de un ámbito de conocimiento (2021).

Tamar Groves is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the University of Extremadura, Spain. Her research interests include international and comparative education, the history of education in Spain, education and citizenship in Europe, women and higher education, and social movements and education.

Michael Hahn is a research associate at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Lena Hein is a doctoral student in romance literature at the Freie Universitát Berlin, Germany. Her comparative research focuses on exile literature.

Gabriela Jonas Aharoni is a lecturer at the School of Audio and Visual Arts, Sapir College, Israel. She is specialized in social identities and historical memory in Latin American and Spanish television and films. Her book Argentinian Telenovelas: Southern Sagas Rewrite Social and Political Reality was published in October 2015 by Sussex University Press.

Michael Petrou is a historian, Veterans’ Experience, at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Canada, and the author of Renegades: Canadians in the Spanisb Civil War.

Raanan Rein is Eliás Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Dror Sharon is a PhD candidate at the Zvi Yavetz School of History, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her dissertation, Refugee Children and the Politics of Citizenship in the UK, 1937-1951, examines the reception of thousands of unaccompanied refugee children in the United Kingdom.

Rosalie Sitman is a researcher in Latin American history and outgoing Head of the Division of Languages at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has published extensively on language pedagogy and Argentinean cultural history.

Catarina von Wedemeyer is a postdoctoral researcher in romance literatures and faculty at the University of Jena, Germany. Her research interests include critical theory, human rights, abolitionism, migration, queer feminism, anarchism, and decolonialism in literature and theory of the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries.

Susanne Zepp holds the chair in Spanish and Latin American Literatures at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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