{"product_id":"jewish-volunteers-the-international-brigades-gerben-zaagsma-9781350090064","title":"Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War","description":"\u003ci\u003eJewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the participation of volunteers of Jewish descent in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, focusing particularly on the establishment of the Naftali Botwin Company, a Jewish military unit that was created in the Polish Dombrowski Brigade. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerben Zaagsma analyses the symbolic meaning of the participation of Jewish volunteers and the Botwin Company both during and after the civil war. He puts this participation in the broader context of Jewish involvement in the left and Jewish\/non-Jewish relations in the communist movement and beyond. To this end, the book examines representations of Jewish volunteers in the Parisian Yiddish press (both communist and non-communist). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, it analyses the various ways in which Jewish volunteers and the Botwin Company have been commemorated after WWII, tracing how discourses about Jewish volunteers became decisively shaped by post-Holocaust debates on Jewish responses to fascism and Nazism, and discusses claims that Jewish volunteers can be seen as 'the first Jews to resist Hitler with arms'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerben Zaagsma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350090069\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350090064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d","brand":"Gerben Zaagsma","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202857648383,"sku":"9781350090064","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_56557e08-2023-4051-a7d1-af6ba39b444a.jpg?v=1756833617","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jewish-volunteers-the-international-brigades-gerben-zaagsma-9781350090064","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}