Len Tsou writes: October 12 is El Día de la Hispanidad (Hispanicity Day) in Spain to mark the date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas in 1492. However, Toma la Plaza-Madrid group declares “Nothing to celebrate. Recognize everything!” Yesterday afternoon, in Madrid several hundreds marched from Plaza de Isabel to Puerta...
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Anarchist Movies of the Spanish Civil War Introduced by Edouard Waintrop Sunday, October 14, 2012, 1:00 p.m. Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2 Includes the following films: Report on the Revolutionary Movement 1936. Spain. Directed by Mateo Santos. An activist in Confederacion National del Trabajo (CNT), the anarcho-syndicalist confederation of...
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Next Wednesday, October 17th, at the Boston Public Library, Dan Lynn Watt and Molly Lynn Watt will perform George and Ruth Watt's Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War. Details below:
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Screening at El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid Spain 10/15, 7 p.m. Film Series: The cinema of the 1930s. Blue Flowers in a Catastrophic Landscape Selection: The Spanish Civil War through the Eyes of Others Film: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, Henri Cartier-Bresson & Herbert Kline. 1938, 16 mm, 21’....
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Journalist Martín de Pozuelo has recently proved, document by document, direct links between the Franco regime and the Holocaust, in which, "the few times that the Franco government facilitated help towards the jews was for foreign causes in their own interest or for propagandistic purposes," reports El Plural. According to El Plural, these...
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Join the Burt Cohen show with guest, Prof. Sebastiaan Faber, as they discuss both the bombing and the painting; what it was and why it remains so important. PODCAST LINK
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On the walls of the New Hampshire State House, there are numerous items meant to inspire visitors: a massive painting of a battle from America’s civil war, portraits of famous Granite Staters like Governor Gil Winant who, as ambassador to the court of St James, greatly helped sway American opinion toward supporting the British...
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ALBA is looking to expand its New York office staff with a part-time development/fundraising coordinator. The full job description is available here.
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Amador Fernández Savater was in New York last week to interview four Spaniards who have been involved with Occupy Wall Street. The piece has been published in two parts at eldiario.es: part 1, part 2.
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Sara Plaza and Edgardo Civallero, authors of the blog CivalleroYPlaza, have published an excellent Spanish translation of the conversation that Jim Fernández and I had with Helen Graham two years ago. Read it here.
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New information about the New Zealand-born Spanish Civil War surgeon Doug Jolly (1904-1983) has emerged following the recent publication of his biography, Frontline Surgeon.
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On September 24, 1945, Dr. Barsky delivered this speech during the Spanish Refugee Appeal rally at Madison Square Garden.
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In 1944, Barsky wrote A Surgeon Goes to War, an 18-chapter memoir of his time in Spain, which was never published but can be consulted at NYU’s Tamiment Library. This is the first chapter.
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Self-effacing and shy though he was, Dr. Edward Barsky’s experience in Spain made him an outspoken activist, tireless organizer, innovative frontline surgeon, and political prisoner. “Eddie is a saint,” Hemingway wrote. “That’s where we put our saints in this country—in jail.”
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The Volunteer is thrilled to honor Dr. Barsky on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
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For Edward Barsky, political and humanitarian activism were two sides of the same coin. Those who persecuted him begged to differ.
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The time she spent in civil-war Spain loomed large in the life of Martha Gellhorn, the St. Louis-born war journalist. “The truth is that Martha could not stop thinking, feeling, and writing about her Spanish experiences.” “Objectivity bullshit.” That’s what Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) called the journalism of her day. Her letters to personalities like...
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Among the thousands of Jewish volunteers who joined the International Brigades were many descendants of the Sephardim. What was it like for them to “return” to Spain? Three case studies: Lini de Vries, César Covo, and Samuel Nahman, aka Manny Harriman.
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How the 22-year-old Jewish American dancer Janet Riesenfeld performed flamenco to help raise money for the Second Republic under fascist attack.
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Why did Jawaharlal Nehru, future prime minister of India, visit civil-war Spain in 1938? As it turned out, the triangular relationship between Britain, Spain, and India had deep cultural and geopolitical implications.
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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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