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).

“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

• 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).

“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

• 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).

“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

• 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