Untold Stories of the Spanish Civil War

This is the first scholarly volume to offer an insight into the less-known stories of women, children, and international volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.

Special attention is given to volunteers of different historical experiences, especially Jews, and voices from less-researched countries in the context of the Spanish war, such as Palestine and Turkey. Of an interdisciplinary nature, this volume brings together historians and literary scholars from different countries. Their research is based on newly found primary sources in both national and private archives, as well as on post-essentialist methodological insights for women’s history, Jewish history, and studies on belonging. By bringing together a group of emerging and senior scholars from different countries, we highlight the polyphony of voices of diverse individuals drawn into the Spanish Civil War. Contributors to this volume have explored new or little-researched primary sources found in archives and documentary centers, including papers held by relatives of the people we study.

The volume is aimed at both scholarly and non-scholarly public, including any readers interested in the Spanish Civil War, twentieth-century European history, Jewish studies, women’s history, or anti-fascism. This volume can be used both in undergraduate college courses and in postgraduate university seminars.

Dr. Raanan Rein is the Elías Sourasky Professor of Latin American and Spanish History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Spain 1936: Year Zero (2018), Populism and Ethnicity: Peronism and the Jews of Argentina (2020), and Jewish Self Defense in South America (2022).

Susanne Zepp holds the chair in Spanish and Latin American Literatures at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She is the author and editor of numerous books, most recently Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese: A Comprehensive Handbook (with Ruth Fine; 2022) and Disseminating Jewish Literatures: Knowledge, Research, Curricula (2020).