The Meites sisters and the Spanish Civil War: women's support for Republican Spain from within and without

IF 0.4 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Raanan Rein
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ABSTRACT Haya and Rurh Meites left Jewish Palestine in order to help Republican Spain in its struggle against the nationalist rebellion headed by General Francisco Franco and assisted by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Their life trajectories illustrate international women’s participation in the Spanish fratricide and its limits. According to different estimates, around 700 women volunteered in Spain during the Civil War. They constituted a tiny fraction of the 35,000 or more international volunteers who flocked to Spain to support the Republican forces. Not a few of the women who wanted to enlist were rejected for their presumed inability to contribute to the anti-Fascist struggle. Whereas men could be drafted to the Brigades without any previous military experience, many of the women of the Brigades had been trained nurses and doctors, and their professional skills served to justify their enlistment. While the historiography of the International Brigades is remarkably rich, the history of women volunteers has not been sufficiently researched. Even less scholarly attention has been paid to the enlistment of Jewish women, despite their relative prominence. This article, with its focus on the lives of two women from Jewish Palestine, hopes to partially fill this lacuna.
梅斯姐妹与西班牙内战:内外女性对共和西班牙的支持
哈雅和鲁尔迈特斯离开犹太巴勒斯坦,是为了帮助西班牙共和国对抗以弗朗西斯科·佛朗哥将军为首、纳粹德国和法西斯意大利协助的民族主义叛乱。她们的生活轨迹说明了国际妇女参与西班牙自相残杀及其局限性。根据不同的估计,大约有700名妇女在内战期间在西班牙志愿服务。在涌入西班牙支持共和党军队的35000多名国际志愿者中,他们只占一小部分。不少想入伍的女性因被认为无法为反法西斯斗争做出贡献而被拒绝。尽管男性可以在没有任何军事经验的情况下被征召加入旅,但旅中的许多女性都受过护士和医生的培训,她们的专业技能有助于证明她们的入伍理由。虽然国际旅的史学非常丰富,但对女性志愿者的历史研究还不够充分。尽管犹太妇女的地位相对突出,但学术界对她们入伍的关注却更少。这篇文章聚焦于两位犹太裔巴勒斯坦妇女的生活,希望能部分填补这一空白。
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