Joseph Siegel Papers
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Joseph Isaac Siegel joined the International Brigades in Spain in July 1937. He worked for the British Battalion medical corps and fought with the Lincoln Washington Battalion machine gun company. This collection consists of letters from Siegel while in Spain to his friend and former Harvard classmate, Leo Epstein.
Historical/Biographical Note
Joseph Isaac Siegel attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard University. He joined the International Brigades in Spain in July 1937, where he was initially assigned to the British Battalion in the medical corps as an ambulance driver, first aid worker, and stretcher bearer. Siegel then joined the Lincoln Washington Battalion and fought with the machine gun company on the Aragon front in the fall of 1937, among other battles. Siegel was repatriated to the U.S. in late 1938. He died in 1972.
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Folders are arranged chronologically.
The files are grouped into one series:
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- I, Spanish Civil War Correspondence
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists entirely of letters from Siegel while in Spain to his friend and former Harvard classmate, Leo Epstein. Siegel, who signs his letters "Jorg," writes of daily life and personal circumstances, as well as detailed descriptions of battles.
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Access Restrictions
Materials are open to researchers. Please contact the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives for more information and to schedule an appointment, tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
Use Restrictions
The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Copyrights held by original creators of individual items in the collection are expected to pass into the public domain 70 years after the creator's death. For more information, please contact the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu or 212-998-2630.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date; Collection name; Collection number; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.
Provenance
This collection came to New York University in January 2001 as part of the original acquisition of ALBA collections, formerly housed at Brandeis University.
