Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War

Gerben Zaagsma is Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Area Digital History & Historiography at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at the University of Luxembourg.

Jewish Volunteers offers valuable insights for a variety of historical specialists … Zaagsma has produced a readable and well-argued account, providing the reader with an engaging analysis of the formation of a Jewish company during the Spanish Civil War, and its interpretation and reinterpretation in popular memory during the remainder of the twentieth century.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on TranslationsAbbreviationsIntroduction: From ‘Chosen Fighters of the Jewish People’ to Jewish Resistance FightersPART I - Jewish Volunteers in the International Brigades1. Backgrounds and Contexts2. The Naftali Botwin CompanyPART II - Jewish Volunteers in the Parisian Yiddish Press3. Analysing the Yiddish Press in Paris in the 1930s4.'Chosen Fighters of the Jewish People': Jewish Volunteers in Naye Prese5. Jewish Volunteers in Parizer Haynt and Undzer ShtimePART III - Postwar: Becoming Jewish Volunteers6. Jewish Volunteers and Jewish Resistance: Setting the Stage7. Debating Jewish Volunteers: The Long 1970s8. 50 years: Jewish Volunteers as Jewish ResistanceEpilogueBibliographyNotes