Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War

This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.

Dr. Raanan Rein is the Elías Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Spain 1936: Year Zero (2018), Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina (2020), and Jewish Self Defense in South America (2022). Susanne Zepp holds the chair in Spanish and Latin American Literatures at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese: A Comprehensive Handbook (with Ruth Fine; 2022) and Disseminating Jewish Literatures: Knowledge, Research, Curricula (2020).

1. Foreign Volunteering: New Trends in the Historiography Nir Arielli 2. Madrid est près de Berlin: An Untold Story from the Spanish Civil War in the German Federal Archive Susanne Zepp 3. Jewish Women Fighting for Social Justice on Both Sides of the Mediterranean Raanan Rein 4. "Fighting Other People's War": Arab Palestinian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War Omri Elmaleh 5. Progressive Education on the Eve of the Civil War and the Question of Its Destruction by the Franco Regime Jorge Cáceres, Tamar Groves, and Mariano González Delgado 6. Social and Literary Engagement: Ruth Rewald and the Children of the Spanish Civil War Lena Hein 7. Politicizing and De-Politicizing Childhood: The Case of the North Stoneham Basque Children's Camp Dror Sharon 8. Between Chicos de España and "Homenaje al pueblo español": Toward an Interpretation of Samuel Glusberg's Solidarity from the Margins Rosalie Sitman 9. A Theater of Diplomacy: Cipriano de Rivas Cherif (1891-1967) and the Spanish Civil War Michael Hahn 10. Como buen republicano - Flamenco and Political Protest in the 1930s Shai Efrat 11. Talking about a Revolution: Federica Montseny and Emma Goldman during the Spanish Civil War Catarina von Wedemeyer 12. Milicianas: Female Combatants on the Screen. Oblivion and the Recuperation of Memories Gabriela Jonas Aharoni 13. Textual Intervention during the Spanish Civil War: Voices of Solidarity from Turkey Esra Akkaya 14. Echoes of Spain: The Recruitment of Yugoslav-Canadian Spanish Civil War Veterans and Their Comrades into the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War Michael Petrou