Author Archive for Patricia A. Schechter

Book Review: Elena Fortún’s Novel of the Spanish War

August 16, 2025
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<em>Book Review:</em> Elena Fortún’s Novel of the Spanish War

Elena Fortún, Celia in the Revolution, translated by Michael Ugarte (Chicago: Swan Isle Press, 2023), 278 pp.
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Staging Death in Southern Spain: The 1936 Córdoba Miner Strike

May 24, 2024
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Staging Death in Southern Spain: The 1936 Córdoba Miner Strike

As Patricia Schechter dug into her family’s history, she uncovered one of the untold stories of the Spanish labor movement: an Andalusian strike in early 1936 grounded in a rich legacy of disciplined pacifism and sturdy worker cooperatives. After the July 1936 military uprising that unleashed the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of men from...
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