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Salud y Shalom

Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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Jewish volunteers made up almost one-third of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB) during the Spanish Civil War. Most belonged to a Communist Party focused on the antifascist goals of the Popular Front and faithful to the internationalist idea of erasing ethnicity, including Jewish ethnicity.

Joseph Butwins oral history presents conversations with ten Jewish veterans of the ALB. Recorded from 1992-94 in the wake of European communisms collapse, the interviews explore the milieus that formed the volunteers. Immigrants established the secular Yiddish-speaking socialism that became a part of many Jewish American communities. Their children, reacting to economic depression and the rise of fascism, enlisted in the ALB. Butwin follows their stories from their youthful motives and choices through their lives as Jews and leftists, and records the reckonings that took place as they reflected on their past.

Insightful and revealing, Salud y Shalom explores the forces of identity and history that led young Jewish leftists to fight fascism.

Joseph Butwin is an associate professor emeritus of English and Jewish studies at the University of Washington. He is the coauthor of Sholom Aleichem (1977).

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

  1. George Watt
  2. Celia Seborer
  3. Ed Bender
  4. Sana Goldblatt
  5. Bill Susman
  6. Irving Weissman
  7. Abe Smorodin
  8. Saul Wellman
  9. Abe Osheroff
  10. Ed Lending

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Index

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