Journey through the Spanish Civil War

The Hinterlands

S.L. Shneiderman, Deborah A Green

• Publisher: White Goat Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9798989452460
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

Selected as one of  Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie History & Biography Books of 2024!
In 1936, when civil war broke out in Spain between Republican and Nationalist forces, thousands of Jews streamed into the country to fight for the elected Republican government. One of these arrivals was S. L. Shneiderman—although he did not come to fight. Shneiderman (1906–1996) was a poet, translator, and literary journalist whose coverage of the Spanish Civil War earned him the moniker "the first Yiddish war reporter." With the collaboration of his wife, Eileen, and photographs by his brother-in-law David Seymour (known professionally as Chim), Shneiderman's dispatches from Spain made him one of the most influential Yiddish journalists of the century. Almost a century later, his book on the Spanish Civil War, published in 1938 as Krig in shpanyen: hinterland and now translated for the first time into English by Deborah A. Green, remains a vivid ground-level record of the conflict through a uniquely Jewish lens.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Introduction to the 1938 Yiddish Edition
• A Few Words from the Author
• Barcelona
• Hotel Colón
• The Bullfight
• Death Sentence
• El Barrio Chino
• Sojourn in Catalunya
• Collectives and Cooperatives
• Lluis Companys, President of Catalunya
• The Jews of Spain
• Nearer to the Front
• The Sirens of Valencia
• Prime Minister Largo Caballero
• The Legend of Durruti
• Ludwig Renn
• Julius Deutsch
• The Basques
• President Azaña’s Speech
• The Orange Groves of Valencia
• Greetings From the “Other Side”
• Revolution and War
• Heroic Women
• When Will this End?
• Photographs
• Endnotes
• Biographies
• About White Goat Press