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Doug Jolly, New Zealand Surgeon

November 22, 2024
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Doug Jolly, New Zealand Surgeon

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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A Giant of a Man: The Sacrifices of Edward Barsky

November 22, 2024
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A Giant of a Man: The Sacrifices of Edward Barsky

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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Dr. Barsky and the Paradoxes of Refugee Aid

November 20, 2024
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Dr. Barsky and the Paradoxes of Refugee Aid

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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Her Most Heart-Felt Cause: Martha Gellhorn and Spain

August 29, 2024
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Her Most Heart-Felt Cause: Martha Gellhorn and Spain

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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Book Review: Ten Biographies by Richard Baxell

May 24, 2024
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<em>Book Review:</em> Ten Biographies by Richard Baxell

Forged in Spain, by Richard Baxell. London: The Clapton Press, 2023. 412pp.
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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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SNAPSHOTS FROM SPAIN By Veliko Vlahovic

April 28, 2024
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SNAPSHOTS FROM SPAIN  By Veliko Vlahovic

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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BATTALION “GEORGE WASHINGTON” by Dr. Mirko Markovic

March 17, 2024
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BATTALION “GEORGE WASHINGTON” by Dr. Mirko Markovic

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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How Contemporary Spanish Photo Books Redefine the Memory of the War

February 25, 2024
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How Contemporary Spanish Photo Books Redefine the Memory of the War

Contemporary Spanish photographers are finding new ways to return to the memory of the Civil War, departing from the sober documentary approach that was dominant until recently.
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Ben Shahn Returns to Spain, or the Intangible and Untimely Heritage of Anti-Fascism

February 24, 2024
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Ben Shahn Returns to Spain, or the Intangible and Untimely Heritage of Anti-Fascism

We talk about the “return” of Picasso’s Guernica to Spain, even though that massive painting had never been here before its “repatriation” in 1981. The magnificent show “Ben Shahn: On Non-Conformity” curated by Laura Katzman and on display until February 26 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, elicits a similar sense:...
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