Salud y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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Joseph Butwin Ed Baker

Salud y Shalom

Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Joseph Butwin, Ed Baker, Tony Geist

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English

University of Illinois Press
21 April 2025

European history; Military history; Jewish studies; Political ideologies; Military veterans

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 Butwin's oral history presents conversations with ten Jewish veterans of the ALB. Recorded from 1992–94 in the wake of European communism's 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.

By: Joseph Butwin
With: Ed Baker, Tony Geist
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780252088629
ISBN 10: 025208862X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 21 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction George Watt Celia Seborer Ed Bender Sana Goldblatt Bill Susman Irving Weissman Abe Smorodin Saul Wellman Abe Osheroff Ed Lending Epilogue Appendix Notes Index

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).

Reviews for Salud y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

"""A unique account of Jewish identity amid social and political pressures to assimilate or deny heritage and tradition. The interviewees discuss what it meant to be a Jew in the global context of the 1930s--in America and Spain, and in the contentious scheme of world politics that culminated in World War II.""--Peter N. Carroll, author of The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War"