Salud Y Shalom

Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Joseph Butwin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2025 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252046513 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

George Watt
Celia Seborer
Ed Bender
Sana Goldblatt
Bill Susman
Irving Weissman
Abe Smorodin
Saul Wellman
Abe Osheroff
Ed Lending

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.04.2025
Co-Autor	Ed Baker, Tony Geist
Zusatzinfo	16 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780252046513 / 9780252046513
Zustand	Neuware