The Latin American Herald Tribune alerts us to the publication of a new study of Cuban volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. In "La leyenda roja. Los cubanos en la guerra civil española," Denise Urcelay-Maragnès tells the story of the more than 1,000 Cubans--including a sizable number of Cuban exiles from the United...
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This event has been canceled due to expected weather conditions in New York. Tomorrow at 7:35pm at the IFC Center as part of the DocuWeeks: Special screening of "Mexican Suitcase" (86', Mexico, Spain) followed by Q&A with director Trisha Ziff. Tickets for individual films at the IFC Center are $13; $8 for ALBA's Friends - presenting...
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WPA 2.0 The Brand New Deal Cultural Arts Series Presents "Pasiones: Songs of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939," featuring Jamie O'Reilly & Michael Smith, with Katrina O'Reilly-Greene & Bob Weber. Sunday October 9, 2:00 pm, SPACE 1245 Chicago Ave, Evanston, Il. Tickets: evanstonspace.com. Produced by J. O’Reilly Productions and portoluz.orgInfo 773 989-7825. More information
The first major exhibit featuring the Spanish Civil War work of Catalan photographer Agustí Centelles (1909-1985) is opening at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center on October 5th; a symposium on Centelles' work featuring six speakers will be held on at the Center on November 30th. Centelles, whose archive was purchased by...
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The Spanish historian Miguel Caballero Pérez claims to have new evidence pointing to the possible burial site of Federico García Lorca, the poet from Granada who was killed by the Nationalists in August 1937, the Guardian, El País and the Diario de Sevilla report. A much-publicized earlier attempt to locate his...
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The San Sebastián Film Festival has announced this year's line-up, which includes La voz dormida (The Sleeping Voice), an adaptation by Benito Zambrano of the best-selling novel by Dulce Chacón about a group of Republican women in a Francoist prison, and Mexican Suitcase, Trisha Ziff's documentary on the 4,500 recovered Spanish Civil...
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Pianist Dred Scott, well-known to those who have attended ALBA's New York event in past years, stages a one-man labor protest:
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The Library of Congress has announced that Philip Levine is the country's next Poet Laureate. In 2001, Levine delivered ALBA's fourth annual Bill Susman lecture, in which he spoke on "Poetry and the Spanish Civil War" and acknowledged his debt, as poet and citizen, to Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Hernández and...
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The DocuWeeks festival opening today in New York and Los Angeles will feature Trisha Ziff's Mexican Suitcase, the documentary about the recovery of 4,500 negatives from the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and "Chim" (David Seymour). Friends of ALBA are entitled to a special discount for the August 27th screening...
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Getty Images commemorates the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War with a selection of more than 100 powerful images by photojournalists. See the anthology here.
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Teesside, an industrial region in Northeast England that in the nineteenth century grew to be a center of shipbuilding and iron and steel production, spawned no fewer than thirty International Brigade volunteers. Of the nine who were born in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, moreover, six played leading roles in Spain: five rose to the rank of Lieutenant...
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The first thirty-six Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for Phase IV were submitted December 30, 2024. Phase IV is intended to focus on volunteers on whom we have minimal information. At some point in the future, I plan to resubmit some volunteers who were returned as not found or on whom no information...
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My grandfather (Nana), Suresh, moved to the United States in 1959 as a young man on a student visa pursuing his master’s degree. His parents, my great grandparents, sought value in being ‘foreign educated’ and bringing his education home – to Mumbai, India to run their family business. 2 years after my Nana moved...
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Peter N. Carroll, a respected and prolific writer, poet, and US historian, died after a short illness on September 16, surrounded by his family. He was 80. Born in New York City in 1943 to a secular Jewish family, Peter grew up in the Bronx and Queens, where his father worked as a composer,...
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LA RÉPUBLIQUE -QUOTIDINEN DE COMBAT RADICAL ET SOCIALISTE, February 5, 1938 Foreign Volunteer Arrested On March 27 last, 29 North Americans were arrested on board the boat Sans-Pareil while they were attempting to reach the Spanish Coast. They were sentenced to a prison term for violating the decree of February 18, 1937 on the...
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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The Spanija series translates select autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google Translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatioan or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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Peter Verburgh’s translation from the French Newpaper Le Journal about a group of 29 Americans arrested in France. “29 American Volunteers Arrested in Muret” Le Journal, 5 April 1937 Toulouse, 4 April- The Control services of the Non-Intervention Committee do not remain inactive, especially with the help of the French Police and Gendarmerie. Thus...
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ALBA Board Member Steve Birnbaum made the trek on Memorial Day to the Home of Eternity Cemetary in Oakland, California to pay tribute to ALB veteran Hans Joachim. Joachim was born in Berlin, Germany in 1906 and moved to the US in 1924. He served in Spain with the George Washington Battalion and later...
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Please find attached photos of my visits to the graves of Lester Rowlson and Tersil Obriot last weekend. I left a brigade flag and a fresh white rose at each. ,,, I was also proud to include aspects of my Clapton CFC scarf; you might have heard of this small football club in London that...
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ALBA's project to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic
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