Letter to the Editors: S.L. Shneiderman’s Lost Book on the Spanish War
To the Editors:
I’m hoping the Volunteer‘s readers can help me with a research project. I recently translated S. L. Shneiderman’s compilation of his Spanish Civil War reportage from his original Yiddish book, Krig in Shpanyen: Hinterlands into English as Journey Through the Spanish Civil War, which was reviewed in your last issue.
Mr. Shneiderman compiled another book focusing on the International Brigade’s Jewish Naftali Botwin Company, Krig in Shpanyen, Vol. II. The book was published in Warsaw just days before the Nazi invasion. It vanished, destroyed by either the fascist Polish government or by the Nazis. Either way, I have been trying to find a copy so that I may translate it from its original Yiddish into English and use it as a source for Kaddish for the Fallen, a book I am writing based on Yiddish language sources that follows Jewish Brigaders through the Spanish war—and if they survived, through the Second World War. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has knowledge of Shneiderman’s book.
Deborah A Green, Esq.
