'I didn't want to float, I wanted to belong to something' [[electronic resource] ] : refugee organizations in Britain 1933-1945 / / edited by Anthonly Grenville and Andrea Reiter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777963003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-59431-1; 9786612594311; 90-420-2893-9; 1-4416-1336-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; ; 10
• Altri autori (Persone): GrenvilleAnthony; ReiterAndrea Ilse Maria <1957->
• Disciplina: 325
• Soggetti: Refugees - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Germans - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Exiles - Germany - History - 20th century; Refugees - Services for - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- The Continuation of Politics by Other Means: The Freie Deutsche Kulturbund in London, 1939-1946 / Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove -- Die Artists’ International Association und ‘refugee artists’ / Anna Müller-Härlin -- Oskar Kokoschka and the Freie Deutsche Kulturbund: The ‘Friendly Alien’ as Propagandist / Marian Malet -- Karawanserei des alten Europas. Die Geschichte des Club 1943 / Jens Brüning -- The Association of Jewish Refugees / Anthony Grenville -- Belsize Square Synagogue: Community, Belonging, and Religion among German-Jewish Refugees / Bea Lewkowicz -- The Wiener Library: Founding Vision and Early History / Ben Barkow -- ‘Work […] of modest proportion’. Ayton School: One Example of the Contribution of the Society of Friends to Saving the Refugees from Hitler / Jennifer Taylor -- Dr Karl König and the Camphill Community / J. M. Ritchie -- Arthur Rosenberg in England und der Academic ; Assistance Council (1934-1937) / Mario Kessler -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.