| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 396 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Oxford's ark : Second World War refugees in the arts and humanities / Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider, Jaś Elsner -- Part I: General -- Pfeiffer, Fraenkel, and refugee scholarship in Oxford during and after the Second World War / Jaś Elsner -- Academic refugees in wartime Oxford : an overview / Anthony Grenville -- Welcoming and supporting refugee scholars : the role of Oxford's colleges / Laurence Brockliss -- Out of the archives : Oxford, the SPSL, and 'Literae humaniores' refugee scholars / Philip Davies -- Networks of association : the social and intellectual lives of academics in Manx internment camps during the Second World War / Harold Mytum -- Part II: Archaeology and Philology -- Otto Brendel and the classical archaeologists at Oxford / Katharina Lorenz -- The Bund and the Oxford Philological Society, 1939-45 / Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider -- Brian Shefton : classical archaeologist / David W.J. Gill -- The 'Cheshire cat' : Paul Jacobsthal's journey from Marburg to Oxford / Katharina Ulmschneider, Sally Crawford -- Eduard Fraenkel (1888-1970) / Christopher Stray -- Part III. History -- Arnaldo Momigliano on Peace and Liberty (1940) / Oswyn Murray -- Rudolf Olden in Oxford / Charmian Brinson, Marian Malet -- I shall snuffle about and make relations : Nicolai Rubinstein, the historian of Renaissance Florence, in Oxford during the War / Kate Lowe -- Karl Leyser, Oxford, and wartime / Conrad Leyser -- Part IV: Art and Music -- Becoming artists : Ernst Eisenmayer, Kurt Weiler, and refugee support networks in wartime Oxford / Fran Lloyd -- Milein Cosman at the Slade / Ann Rau Dawes -- From Onchan to Oxford -- an émigré journey : Heinz Edgar Kiewe / Rachel Dickson -- Bringing Asia to Oxford : Dr William Cohn and the Museum of Eastern Art / Alexander Cullen -- Shipwrecked on the island of the blessed : Egon Wellesz's new beginnings in wartime Oxford / Bojan Bujić -- Part V: Philosophy, Theology -- Jacob Leib Teicher between Florence and Cambridge : Arabic and Jewish philosophy in wartime Oxford / Anna Teicher -- Philosophy in exile : the contrasting experiences of Ernst Cassirer and Raymond Klibansky in Oxford / Graham Whitaker -- Part VI: Publishing -- German-speaking refugee publishers in Oxford : Phaidon, Bruno Cassirer, and the Oxford University Press / Anna Nyburg -- A new start -- the English publishing house Bruno Cassirer Oxford (1940-90) : a bibliographical examination / Rahel E. Feilchenfeldt |
| Summary |
'Ark of Civilization' addresses Oxford's role as a shelter, a meeting point, and a centre of thought in the arts and humanities in the midst of WWII, interweaving personal and global histories to explore how refugee scholars had a profound and lasting impact on the development of British culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
University of Oxford -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
University of Oxford fast |
| Subject |
Political refugees -- England -- Oxford -- History -- 20th century
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REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
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Political refugees
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England -- Oxford
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crawford, Sally (Sally Elizabeth Ellen), editor.
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Ulmschneider, Katharina, editor.
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Elsner, Jaś, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191827266 |
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0191827266 |
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9780191511332 |
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0191511331 |
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9780191088018 |
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0191088013 |
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