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Emily Robins Sharpe

Emily Robins Sharpe is professor of English and an affiliate faculty member of Women’s and Gender Studies and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire. She is the author of Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War (University of Toronto Press, 2020). As co-director of the Canada and the Spanish Project, a print series and virtual research environment (spanishcivilwar.ca), she most recently co-edited Canada and the Spanish Civil War: An Anthology (University of Ottawa Press, 2026).

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Review of Salud y Shalom: Conversations with Jewish Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Joseph Butwin

Emily Robins Sharpe

Joseph Butwin’s Salud y Shalom is a long-awaited exploration of the motivations that brought hundreds of Jewish American volunteers to Spain in the late 1930s to fight in the country’s nominally civil war. Through detailed conversations with ten veterans, Butwin elicits fascinating reflections on their experiences and era.

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