Jessi Duncanson HONS 2011J Maria Hernandez 18 October 2020 Eddie Balchowsky: Anti-Fascist of the Alleys Eddie Balchowsky was an enigma of sorts, a man who lived by a strong moral code to avoid moral codes and whose most consistent feature was his embodiment of contradictions. He always professed a lack of interest in politics, yet…
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Theadora Williams HONS 2011J Final Essay Professor Hernández-Ojeda The Spanish Civil War: The Popular Front, The Commissars, and George Watt Even in hindsight, the policy of the COMINTERN under Stalin during the Spanish Civil War is contentious, to say the least. Some attribute the downfall of the Republic to their interference, others…
December 18, 2020
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Gabriella Perez-Hernandez HONS 2011J Prof. Hernandez-Odeja 16 December 2020 Louis “Lou” Gordon At the start of this course, I knew very little about the Spanish Civil War. Over the course of this semester, I learned immensely about the complicated tensions in Spain and on the global stage the years prior to the breakout of the…
Fiona Weinstein Maria Hernandez-Ojeda The Spanish Civil War in Art, Literature and Film 18 December 2020 Volunteer Aaron Hilkevitch Unwavering Commitment to Freedom: Aaron Hilkevitch Personal Statement As a student of political science and human rights, I was especially interested in the circumstances and psychology that encouraged the volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln…
Kristie Sanchez Professor Hernández-Ojeda HONS 2011J 12/18/20 Abraham “Abe” Osheroff Personal Statement Prior to taking this course on the Spanish Civil War, I had never heard of the Spanish Civil War. It was not until I watched the documentary The Good Fight that I realized the significance of…
Ariana Guzman HONS 2011J Final Essay Professor Hernández-Ojeda The Participation of American Women in the Spanish Civil War: The Story of Helen Freeman Personal Statement Prior to the course, I was not aware about the civil war in Spain or the involvement of international volunteers that would travel to Spain for its anti-fascist and…
Ayisha Siddiqa HONS 2011J Final Essay Professor Hernández-Ojeda Volunteer Bill Susman The international ideal unites the human race: essay on Bill Susman Personal Statement I expected this class to be a series of facts about war, and for us to discuss the events that unfolded prior to WWII in a statistical manner…
Maggie Kearney HONS 2011J Final Essay Prof. Maria-Hernandez Ojeda Ruth Davidow Personal Statement Ruth Davidow first caught my attention with her interview for the 1984 film The Good Fight my classmates and I streamed at the beginning of the semester. The documentary was one of my first real exposures to the Spanish fight against fascism,…
Elisheva Adler Professor Maria Hernandez-Ojeda HONS 2011J – Spanish Civil War in Literature and Film 17 December 2020 Leonard Bertram Levenson: “Lenny” Personal Statement This semester, I have had the privilege of taking a course about the Spanish Civil War, taught by Professor Hernández-Ojeda. Prior to taking this course, I had no knowledge about the…
Vasilis Kontodimas Professor Hernandez-Ojeda HONS 2011J, Section 01 8 Dec. 2020 Nicholas Ioannou Demas’ fight “to stop the barbarians” Personal Statement: Before I selected Nicholas Ioannou Demas as the one Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer to research, I knew how treacherous the life for the Greek population had been in the early twentieth century. My…