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Anika Walke deposited Split Memory: The Geography of Holocaust Memory and Amnesia in Belarus in the group
Holocaust history on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe remote location of Beshankovichy’s mass grave for Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide reflects the exclusion of local Jews during the German occupation of Soviet territories and limits their memory to a few knowledgeable survivors and witnesses. In contrast, local commemorative practices focus on memorials for Soviet soldiers, partisans, and…[Read more]
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Anika Walke deposited ANIKA WALKE: Pioneers and Partisans – An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia in the group
Holocaust history on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoHow did Soviet Jews respond to the Holocaust and the devastating transformations that accompanied persecution? How was the Holocaust experienced, survived, and remembered by Jewish youth living in Soviet territory? Anika Walke, Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, examines these important questions in Pioneers and…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoI noticed we have some new members. Welcome! Please feel free to introduce yourselves. I’d love to hear what people are working on.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCongratulations! That’s fantastic news.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoI am happy to announce that my book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War is now available in paperback.
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Anika Walke deposited Memory and Violence – An Interview with Jay Winter in the group
Holocaust history on Humanities Commons 8 years agoHow should we remember historical moments of violence and loss? What are the links between terrible events like the Holocaust, the mass casualties of World War I, the Armenian Genocide, and crises around the world today? What challenges do historians face as they examine and interpret death and war?
Anika Walke and Jay Winter both face such…[Read more]
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Natascha Drubek deposited Ghettoisierte Sprachen: Die tschechisch-deutsche „Zwangsgemeinschaft“ der Juden von Theresienstadt in the group
Holocaust history on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGhettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more] -
Natascha Drubek deposited Ghettoisierte Sprachen: Die tschechisch-deutsche „Zwangsgemeinschaft“ der Juden von Theresienstadt in the group
Holocaust history on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGhettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more] -
Natascha Drubek deposited Ghettoisierte Sprachen: Die tschechisch-deutsche „Zwangsgemeinschaft“ der Juden von Theresienstadt in the group
Holocaust history on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGhettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more] -
Anne Donlon started the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoI’m interested to hear what people have been reading lately. Today I’m reading Bécquer Seguín’s Spanish Civil Wars in Public Books:
To see Iberia instead of Spain, then, is to take the long view of history. To write an Iberian Civil War novel is to spend less time on the exceptionalness of the war itself than on how that moment places the lo…
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi Anne- I’m still gathering information and reading about Kea. Nothing in the works yet. I look forward to seeing the anthology on Black Women’s Internationalism! sounds great.
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoI recently listened to the International Communism and the Spanish Civil War episode of @sguillory‘s Sean’s Russia Blog Podcast, featuring @lkirschenb! It was excellent–I highly recommend it: http://seansrussiablog.org/2017/07/07/international-communism-and-the-spanish-civil-war/
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Thanks, Anne! Glad you enjoyed it.
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoOh, that’s so great to hear! Are you writing about Kea? I’m finalizing a chapter for an anthology on Black Women’s Internationalism about black women’s life writing and the Spanish Civil War that discusses the ambulance fundraising tour around the south & midwest of the US that Kea & Thyra Edwards undertook in 1938 (and Edwards’s scrapbook…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAnne- I have your article from the Mass. Review on Cunard in my file on Salaria Kea- I’ll definitely look for your book. African American women in the SPW is such a rich and understudied area. So glad to make this connection with you!
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSo glad that you all are here! My own work has circled around African Americans and the Spanish Civil War. I edited a chapbook of correspondence and poems: Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard & Louise Thompson: Poetry, Politics & Friendship in the Spanish Civil War. I’ve also written about Cunard’s SCW scrapbook, and have some writing in the works a…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoGerda Taro’s photographs of the SPW at the International Center for Photography.
https://www.icp.org/search-results/Gerda%20Taro/all/all/relevant/0
Also, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade archives at NYU are fantastic for US participation in the war.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/alba_guides.html
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHello all! My interests are women in photography, literature and film dealing with the SPW from historical as well as contemporary perspectives.
We are very much looking forward to Lisa Kirschenbaum’s visit to Syracuse U. this fall! Great to see you in this group. And thanks for starting up this conversation, Anne.
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John Levin replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA couple of open data sets relating to Francoist represion:
Graves of victims of Francoism:
http://vidascontadas.org/ with data at: https://github.com/VidasContadas/datasets
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John Levin replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAlthough I’m doing a PhD at Sussex University on debtors’ sanctuaries in c18th London, I have a strong interest in Spain & Spanish history, which I’d like to develop more seriously.
Especially interested in digitial history, and using computational techniques on historical data.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) has digitized much of the Comintern’s materials on the International Brigades (fond 545). The site is most easily navigated if you can read Russian, but there is some English translation, and the archives are in many languages.
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