Jennifer Taylor

Richard Dove

Charmian Brinson

Anthony Grenville

Marietta Bearman

The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached Britain by the outbreak of World War II. It soon developed into a comprehensive social, cultural and political organisation with a theatre and a weekly newspaper of its own. A Communist-influenced organisation, it also followed a distinct political agenda. In the first book on the cultural and political life of Austrian refugees in Britain, "Out of Austria" assesses and evaluates the Austrian Centre's activities and achievements, while also examining the Austrians' often fraught relations with their British hosts. It gives a fascinating insight into such figures as Sigmund Freud, who became the Centre's Honorary President during his final months and the poet Erich Fried, then an unknown seventeen-year-old, k and sheds light on the interaction of politics and culture against the background of exile in wartime Britain.

The Austrian Centre in London in World War II

Out of Austria

Swen Steinberg

This special issue focusses on refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British colonies, dominions and overseas territories. It deals with aspects like internment, identity and cultural representation in not well-known destinations of forced migration like India, New Zealand, Canada or Kenya.

Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories

Bea Lewkowicz

In Émigré Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain as Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria in the late 1930s, many of whom known for their enormous contributions to British culture.

Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria

Émigré Voices

Between 1933 and the outbreak of war in 1939, over 60,000 Jewish refugees fled to Britain from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Some 50,000 settled there. No previous historical study of this group of immigrants exists, though they form one of the most high-profile groups of refugees to have come to Britain in the 20th century, both as survivors of the Nazi terror and as high-achieving contributors to British society. This book - now available in paperback - focuses on the first quarter-century of these Jewish refugees' settlement in Britain. It covers new ground by drawing on a rich source of contemporary material: the previously untapped monthly journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees - AJR Information. The journal is the only contemporary source that provides material for a full-scale history of these refugees when they established themselves permanently in Britain, as well as how they adapted to British society and developed their distinctive 'Continental' identity and culture that characterized them in their adopted homeland.

Their Image in AJR Information

Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970

Weitere Angaben Inhalt: Anthony GRENVILLE: Preface Elke SEEFRIED: 'A noteworthy contribution in the fight against Nazism': Hubertus Prinz zu Löwenstein im Exil Patricia CLAVIN: 'A Wandering Scholar' in Britain and the USA, 1933-45: The Life and Work of Moritz Bonn Wilfried WEINKE: 'England find ich gut!' Facetten aus Leben und Werk des Autors Robert Muller Steven W. LAWRIE: 'Es soll diese Spur doch bleiben...' Hans Jacobus: Exile, National Socialism and the Holocaust Gillian LATHEY: Eulenspiegel to Owlyglass: The Impact of the Work of the Exiled Illustrators Walter Trier and Fritz Wegner on British Children's Literature Ulrike WALTON-JORDAN: 'Although he is Jewish, he is M&S': Jewish Refugees from Nazism and Marks & Spencer from the 1930s to the 1960s Jennifer TAYLOR: Into Exile: Ernst Sommer in London Ursula HUDSON-WIEDENMANN: Exil in Großbritannien: Die Keramikerin Grete Loebenstein-Marks Andrea HAMMEL: Selma Kahn - A Provincial Exile Jon HUGHES: AJR Information in the Context of German-language Exile Journal Publication, 1933-1945 Anthony GRENVILLE: Listening to Refugee Voices: The Association of Jewish Refugees Information and Research on the Refugees from Hitler in Britain Index

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