Hungarians in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

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Abstract (max. 250 words):
This paper will describe the role of two world famous Hungarian photographers, Robert Capa and Kati Horna, in the Spanish Civil War. It will include a discussion of some of their photos from the War and give a brief biography of each. In addition, it will include information on the role of the "Rakosi Brigade," one of the International Brigades that participated in the War in support of the Second Republic. Two individuals who fought with the Brigade and became famous in their own right in Hungarian history, Laszlo Rajk and Ferenc Munnich, will also be discussed. As an introduction, a brief history of the Spanish Civil War and its outcome will also be included.


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Katherine Gyekenyesi Gatto is Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies and former Chairperson (1990-97) of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures at John Carroll University. In 2012, she founded the Women's and Gender Studies Program and was its director until 2016. The focus of Dr. Gatto's scholarly research is Spanish literature, Hispanic women writers and filmmakers, and Hungarian and Hungarian-American studies (literature and film). A former Fulbright scholar to Spain, Dr. Gatto has published the following books: Of Kings and Poets: Cancionero Poetry of the Trastamara Courts; The Lapidary of King Alfonso X, the Learned; Spain's Literary Legacy: Studies in Spanish Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century; Treasury of Hungarian Love: Poems, Quotations, and Proverbs in Hungarian and English. Currently she is completing two manuscripts, one on Hungarian Women in Text and Image, the other, on the Argentine film director, Maria Luisa Bemberg.