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Spanish Connections: A Memoir

February 17, 2024
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Spanish Connections: A Memoir

Mark L. Asquino (born in 1949) is a Foreign Service officer who retired in 2015 after a long career with postings including in Latin America, Europe, Central Asia, and Africa. Asquino’s memoir, Spanish Connections (2023), narrates a diplomatic journey that ended in Equatorial Guinea, Spain’s only former colony in sub-Saharan Africa, where he served...
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WHY EVERYTHING DIFFICULT WAS SO EASY By Liza Gavric

February 13, 2024
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WHY EVERYTHING DIFFICULT WAS SO EASY By Liza Gavric

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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SPANISH ACQUAINTANCES IN PRAGUE By Dr. Adela Bohunicka

February 6, 2024
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SPANISH ACQUAINTANCES IN PRAGUE  By Dr. Adela Bohunicka

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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FORTRESS COLLIOURE By Svetsilav Dorevic

January 30, 2024
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FORTRESS COLLIOURE By Svetsilav Dorevic

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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SPANISH MEETINGS by August Cesaric

December 21, 2023
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SPANISH MEETINGS by August Cesaric

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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ON THE NORTHERN FRONT by Vojislav Milosevic

November 25, 2023
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ON THE NORTHERN FRONT by Vojislav Milosevic

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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Marianne Angermann and Franz Bielschowsky: Two German Antifascists in Republican Madrid

November 18, 2023
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Marianne Angermann and Franz Bielschowsky: Two German Antifascists in Republican Madrid

Marianne Angermann, a young German biochemist, joined a Madrid lab in late 1935 to work with her compatriot Franz Bielschowsky, a Jewish refugee who’d been there since 1933. When the war broke out the following year, both decided stay in Spain and serve the Republican war effort as medical personnel. Marianne’s letters to her...
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LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF ONE WHO IS NO LONGER THERE by Ales Bebler

November 18, 2023
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LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF ONE WHO IS NO LONGER THERE by Ales Bebler

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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AND ARAGON IS ON FIRE by Dr. Mirko Markovich

November 3, 2023
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AND ARAGON IS ON FIRE by Dr. Mirko Markovich

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 places...
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Palestinian Volunteers: An Exchange

May 18, 2023
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Palestinian Volunteers: An Exchange

To the Editors: I’ve just read Nevine Abraham’s article about the Palestinian volunteer Ali Abd el-Khaleq in your last number (“Liberating Palestine in Spain”). I’m very happy you touched this topic and raised a bit of light into this little-know participation. Thanks. But I’m sorry to say there are some important mistakes in the...
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