From Young Voters to Young Leaders: ALBA/Puffin Human Rights Award Goes to “18by Vote”

February 24, 2024
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From Young Voters to Young Leaders: ALBA/Puffin Human Rights Award Goes to “18by Vote”

The 2024 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism will be awarded this May 4 to 18by Vote, an organization that creates sustainable civic leadership among young people who have been historically excluded from positions of leadership and power. Founded in response to low youth voter turnout in the 2016 general election, 18byVote has since...
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Howard Zinn, Art Shields, Black Antifascism: ALBA Events Draw Crowds

February 24, 2024
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Howard Zinn, Art Shields, Black Antifascism: ALBA Events Draw Crowds

ALBA Features Art Shields, Labor Reporter & Activist On January 25, ALBA’s Nancy Wallach and Josie Yurek, along with Richard Bermack, hosted a widely attended online event on Art Shields (1888-1988), a labor reporter for the Daily Worker who was in Madrid in 1939...
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Upcoming Events: Letters from George and Ruth Watt

February 24, 2024
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Upcoming Events: Letters from George and Ruth Watt

On April 14, the anniversary of the Second Spanish Republic, ALBA invites you to attend a theatrical performance of George & Ruth: Songs and Letters of the Spanish Civil War, written by Dan and Molly Watt and based on the letters that ALBA co-founder...
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Grandchildren’s Testimonies Online

February 24, 2024
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Grandchildren’s Testimonies Online

The overwhelming response from the grandchildren of Lincoln veterans to ALBA’s invitation to submit a video testimony has given rise to a webpage featuring 20 moving videos. See alba-valb.org/grand-tribute-project/...
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New ALBA Spanish Civil War Film Club

February 24, 2024
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New ALBA Spanish Civil War Film Club

Starting this spring, ALBA will launch a new series of workshops for teachers and the general public as part of the Peter N. Carroll Fund for Anti-Fascist Education: a...
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Letter from ALBA: Fighting For Our Rights

February 24, 2024
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Fighting For Our Rights

If we have learned one thing from political and judicial developments over the past couple of years, it’s that we cannot trust that the basic rights that past generations...
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Ben Shahn Returns to Spain, or the Intangible and Untimely Heritage of Anti-Fascism

February 24, 2024
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Ben Shahn Returns to Spain, or the Intangible and Untimely Heritage of Anti-Fascism

We talk about the “return” of Picasso’s Guernica to Spain, even though that massive painting had never been here before its “repatriation” in 1981. The magnificent show “Ben Shahn: On Non-Conformity” curated by Laura Katzman and on display until February 26 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, elicits a similar sense:...
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How Contemporary Spanish Photo Books Redefine the Memory of the War

February 25, 2024
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How Contemporary Spanish Photo Books Redefine the Memory of the War

Contemporary Spanish photographers are finding new ways to return to the memory of the Civil War, departing from the sober documentary approach that was dominant until recently.
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Premature Antifascism and The Power of Self-Identification

February 25, 2024
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Premature Antifascism and The Power of Self-Identification

“Oh, you were a premature antifascist,” the chair of the Yale Classics department replied to Bernard Knox when, during a job interview in 1946, Knox told him about his stint with the International Brigades preceding his US army service during World War II. “I...
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Women of Jewish Palestine and Spain: The Case of the Meites Sisters

February 25, 2024
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Women of Jewish Palestine and Spain: The Case of the Meites Sisters

The lives of Ruth and Haya Meites, two sisters who left Jewish Palestine in order to help Republican Spain in its struggle against fascism, illustrate the level of international...
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How the Story of Scottish IB Nurse Chrissie Wallace Reached Her Long-Lost Son

February 25, 2024
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How the Story of Scottish IB Nurse Chrissie Wallace Reached Her Long-Lost Son

Over the many years I spent researching the presence of the International Brigades in the town of Vic and its surroundings, in northern Catalonia, I’d always been curious about...
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“For Whom the Bell Tolls Is a Very Strange Book”—Alex Vernon, Hemingway Scholar

February 18, 2024
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“For Whom the Bell Tolls Is a Very Strange Book”—Alex Vernon, Hemingway Scholar

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway’s sprawling Spanish Civil War novel first published in October 1940, is still among his most widely read books. It is also widely...
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Spanish Connections: A Memoir

February 17, 2024
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Spanish Connections: A Memoir

Mark L. Asquino (born in 1949) is a Foreign Service officer who retired in 2015 after a long career with postings including in Latin America, Europe, Central Asia, and...
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Finding Ruby: A Memoir

February 17, 2024
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Finding Ruby: A Memoir

Richard Rothman is Special Pro Bono Counsel to Weil Law Firm, where he previously served as co-head of Complex Commercial Litigation. In 2023, Rich was honored with the New...
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From the Lincoln Brigade to Mauthausen: How an Anarchist Saved 300 Spaniards

February 25, 2024
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From the Lincoln Brigade to Mauthausen: How an Anarchist Saved 300 Spaniards

Despite their name, the famous International Brigades of Spain’s Republican Army included thousands of Spanish soldiers who served alongside the foreign volunteers. Among them was César Orquín, an anarchist...
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Book Review: Ralph Fasanella, Artist of the People

February 25, 2024
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<em>Book Review:</em> Ralph Fasanella, Artist of the People

Anne Broyles, I’m Gonna Paint! Ralph Fasanella, Artist of the People. Illustrated by Victoria Tentler-Krylov. New York: Holiday House, 2023. 48pp.
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Book Review: Portuguese Anti-Fascists in Wartime Madrid

February 25, 2024
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<em>Book Review:</em> Portuguese Anti-Fascists in Wartime Madrid

Manuel Tiego, Eulalia's House. Translated by Eric A. Gordon. New York: International Publishing Company, 2022. 160pp.
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SPANISH ACQUAINTANCES IN PRAGUE By Dr. Adela Bohunicka

February 6, 2024
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SPANISH ACQUAINTANCES IN PRAGUE  By Dr. Adela Bohunicka

The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to...
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Wentzell’s Shattered: The XVth Brigade Against Franco’s 1938 Aragon Offensive

January 22, 2024
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Wentzell’s Shattered: The XVth Brigade Against Franco’s 1938 Aragon Offensive

Wentzell, Tyler D. “Shattered: The XVth Brigade against Franco’s 1938 Aragon Offensive,” chapter 4 in Armies in Retreat, Chaos, Cohesion, and Consequences, eds. Heck, Timothy G. and Walker D....
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VLADIMIR ČOPIĆ By Vlajko Begovic

January 12, 2024
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VLADIMIR ČOPIĆ    By Vlajko Begovic

The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to...
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LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF ONE WHO IS NO LONGER THERE by Ales Bebler

November 18, 2023
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LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF ONE WHO IS NO LONGER THERE by Ales Bebler

The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to...
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