“There is no lack of unpleasantness here, and life is not as certain as at your editorial office…” S. L. Shneiderman reporting from war zone

The Jewish daily press, from the first days of the Spanish Civil War, eagerly reprinted messages from news agencies, often giving news from the front on the front pages. Reports were also often presented in the context of current events in Poland. Importantly, however, Jewish journals published in the Second Polish Republic also had their own correspondent in Spain. It was through his eyes that the "Jewish street" followed what was happening on the Iberian Peninsula. This correspondent was S.L. Shneiderman. In 1938, some of the reports edited by the author were published in Warsaw by Yidishe Universal Bibliotek under the title, Krig in Shpanien. They were complemented by photos taken by David Seymour (aka “Chim,” 1911-1956), a Polish Jew and a recognized photojournalist who covered the war in Spain for Life magazine; privately, he was Schneiderman`s brother-in-law. In this paper I will investigate the context in which the texts were written and carefully analyze the deletions and erasures which the author used in different versions of the same texts.