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1 online resource (xvi, 207 pages) |
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Yearbook of the research centre for German and Austrian exile studies ; 10 |
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Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; 10.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'I didn't want to float; I wanted to belong to something.' Refugee Organizations in Britain 1933-1945; The Continuation of Politics by Other Means: The Freie Deutsche Kulturbund in London, 1939-1946; Die Artists' International Association und 'refugee artists; Oskar Kokoschka and the Freie Deutsche Kulturbund: The 'Friendly Alien' as Propagandist; Karawanserei des alten Europas. Die Geschichte des Club 1943; The Association of Jewish Refugees; Belsize Square Synagogue: Community, Belonging, and Religion among German-Jewish Refugees |
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The Wiener Library: Founding Vision and Early History'Work of modest proportion'. Ayton School: One Example of the Contribution of the Society of Friends to Saving the Refugees from Hitler; Dr Karl Knig and the Camphill Community; Arthur Rosenberg in England und der Academic Assistance Council (1934-1937); Index |
| Summary |
This volume fills an important gap in research on the refugees from Nazism who settled in Britain, by giving a full and wide-ranging account of the organizations that they established. The contributions cover these organizations chronologically, from those that did not outlast the war to those still active today, and in terms of their function, as cultural or religious institutions, as historical resources for the study of Nazism and the refugees, or as all-purpose representative refugee associations. Any scholar or student working in this field needs to have an understanding of the organizati |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English and German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Refugees -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Exiles -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Refugees -- Services for -- Great Britain
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Exiles
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Refugees
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Refugees -- Services for
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Germany
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grenville, Anthony.
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Reiter, Andrea, 1957-2018.
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| ISBN |
9781441613363 |
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1441613366 |
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9789042028937 |
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9042028939 |
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