Kossuth (The War That Came Early)

Kossuth was a Brigadier of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. He chose his alias in honor Lajos Kossuth, a nineteenth-century Hungarian political leader who had been one of the great voices of his day for democratization in Europe. Kossuth was himself a Hungarian communist, and his true name was very difficult for an Anglophone to pronounce. (Kossuth spoke no English himself, though he was certainly a polyglot.)

Kossuth had occasional dealings with Chaim Weinberg. First, he tried (with limited success) to convince Weinberg not to pursue his personal quest for a Jewish shul in Spain. He correctly pointed out that, if a shul were built, Weinberg would quickly lose interest in it. He later reassigned Weinberg from frontline duties to agitating POWs.

{{The War That Came Early))