![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stereotyped as timid and submissive, the reality is that thousands of Jews from 53 countries went to fight and die opposing Franco, firing the first shots against Fascism. Argentinian Jewish Combattants Others Introductionįor reasons best known to themselves, most adherents of the Left - both old and new - and the mainstream Jewish community itself – have been, till recently, loathe to acknowledge and recall the dominant Jewish role in the International Brigade’s (IB) struggle against Fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Introduction Some Facts Sources Jews from the East End and the Spanish Civil War The attitude of the Jewish Establishment and Religious Jews to those Jews who went to fight in Spain, from Britain The Figures and the sacrifice Acknowledgements The Jaroslav Dombrowski Brigade The American Volunteers - Abraham Lincoln / Washington Brigade The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion – Canada The Latvian Volunteers Franco – Belge Brigade Georges Dimitrov Austrians Italians Israel (Palestine Mandate) The Romanians The Germans – Thaelmann bat. (Note – This survey is available at the AJEX Archives of the Jewish Military Museum in Hendon, the Marx Memorial Library (MML) in Clerkenwell, The Imperial War Museum Library, The National Archives at Kew, The British Library, The SOAS Library at the University of London, the LSE Spanish Studies Library, the Jewish Historical Society of England Library, UCL Jewish Studies Library, and The Wiener Library – all in London Manchester University Library, The Hebrew University Library in Jerusalem, The Virtual Jewish Library website, VALBA (Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade) web site and Brandeis University Library in the USA. ![]()
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