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Basque Studies Program Newsletter
· Issue 57,
1998
Liburutegitik - From the Basque
Library
by Marcelino Ugalde
A newly discovered Spanish Civil War archive from the
Basque region in the northern part of the Spanish state was
acquired recently by the Basque Studies Library at the
University of Nevada,
Reno. It contains more than 5,000 documents, manuscripts,
photographs, maps, pamphlets and
artifacts produced by both the Basque and Republican
Governments and the Fascist Nationals during the northern
front campaign of the Spanish Civil War.
This particular archive, Archivo Guerra Civil
&endash; Frente del Norte, was created by Lieutenant
José María Huarte Jauregui, the military
commandant in Zarautz. Señor Huarte, the historian
and archivist for the “Reino de Navarra”
collection, developed a great interest in and enthusiasm for
establishing an archive representing both opponents of the
war after Basque and Republican information was confiscated
by Franco’s army, where it took control of the Basque
territories of Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa. Information generated
by the Nationalist military administration that occupied the
Basque provinces was also important and was added to
Huarte’s collection. His archive was roughly organized
into two parts, though neither part was compiled with a
guide.
Nonetheless, the Basque Studies Library looks forward
to identifying, organizing and providing
access to this unique, once unknown archive, many documents
of which were used for
intelligence services and espionage. This archive provides
information from both perspectives,
the Fascist side and the Republican side, concerning the
military situation in Euskadi, the Basque Country. This is
its greatest contribution to
scholarship.
On a sadder note my valuable assistant, Juan
Ibarguren, library assistant for the Basque Studies
Library this past year, left the library at the end of
January to take a position with the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service in the San Diego, California area. He
was a very valuable asset to the library and will be missed.
All the best to Juan in his new endeavors. Zorionak eta urte
askotarako!
The following is a short list of Marcelino’s
noteworthy new titles in the Basque Studies
Library:
Alustiza, Mary. The Basque Table: A Cookbook.
Stockton, Calif.: Azitsula Books, 1996.
Elhuyar Kultur Elkartea.
Euskara-Gaztelania/Castellano-Vasco Hiztegia.
Usurbil: Elhuyar, 1996. (CD-ROM version is available,
too.)
Klaudio Harluxet Fundazioa. Euskal Hiztegia
Entziklopedikoa. 8 vols. Donostia-San Sebastián:
Klaudio Harluxet Fundazioa, 1995. (CD-ROM version is
available, too.)
Laxalt, Robert. Dust Devils: A Novella. Reno:
University of Nevada Press, 1997.
Morán Blanco, Sagrario. ETA entre España y
Francia. Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 1997.
Zulaika, Joseba. Crónica de una seducción:
El museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Madrid: NEREA,
1997.
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