<p>Co-hosts Daniel and Patricia introduce the family members at the heart of their Spanish Civil War stories: Ben Barsky, combatant in one of the International Brigades and José Becerra, a high-placed official in the city hall of Pueblonuevo del Terrible (Córdoba) Spain.</p>

Co-hosts Daniel and Patricia introduce the family members at the heart of their Spanish Civil War stories: Ben Barsky, combatant in one of the International Brigades and José Becerra, a high-placed official in the city hall of Pueblonuevo del Terrible (Córdoba) Spain.

Episode One - The Ghosts that Haunt Us

Two historians, formerly teacher and student, share their research discoveries and family stories connected to the Spanish Civil War through the lenses of family history, politics, labor, and migration. Daniel Czitrom taught at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts for 41 years and Patricia Schechter currently teaches at Portland State University in Oregon. Czitrom’s book is a memoir entitled Kitchen Table History: Wrestling with my Family’s Radical Past and Schechter’s book is a study of an important mining town in Andalusia titled El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939.

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