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I didn't want to float, I wanted to belong to something : refugee organizations in Britain 1933-1945 /

I didn't want to float, I wanted to belong to something : refugee organizations in Britain 1933-1945 / edited by Anthony Grenville and Andrea Reiter. - 1 online resource (xvi, 207 pages) - Yearbook of the research centre for German and Austrian exile studies ; 10 . - Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 10. Rodopi European History and Culture Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357976. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- 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 / 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 König and the Camphill Community / Arthur Rosenberg in England und der Academic Assistance Council (1934-1937) / Index. Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove -- Anna Müller-Härlin -- Marian Malet -- Jens Brüning -- Anthony Grenville -- Bea Lewkowicz -- Ben Barkow -- Jennifer Taylor -- J. M. Ritchie -- Mario Kessler --

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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 organizations that were and are so characteristic of the refugee community.


Text in English and German.

9789042028937

10.1163/9789042028937 DOI


1900-1999


Refugees--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Exiles--History--Germany--20th century.
Refugees--Services for--Great Britain.
Exiles.
Refugees.
Refugees--Services for.


Germany.
Great Britain.


History.

DA125.G4 / I2 2009eb

325.42