Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British overseas territories /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]
Description:	xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English German
Series:	Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 1388-3720 ; volume 20 Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; 20.
Subject:	Refugees -- Germany. Refugees -- Austria. Exiles -- Germany. Exiles -- Austria. Refugees -- Commonwealth countries. Exiles -- Commonwealth countries. World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Germany. World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Austria. Exiles. Refugees. Austria. Commonwealth countries. Germany.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12355944

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Other authors / contributors:	Steinberg, Swen, editor. Grenville, Anthony, editor.
ISBN:	9789004399525 9004399526 9789004399532
Notes:	This volume contains contributions to The Triennial International Conference of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, "Emigration from Nazi-Occupied Europe to British Overseas Territories after 1933," held at the University of London in September 2017. Includes bibliographical references and index. English and German.
Summary:	"Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories focusses on exiles and forced migrants in British colonies and dominions in Africa or Asia and in Commonwealth countries. The contributions deal with aspects such as legal status and internment, rescue and relief, identity and belonging, the Central European encounter with the colonial and post-colonial world, memories and generations or knowledge transfers and cultural representations in writing, painting, architecture, music and filmmaking. The volume covers refugee destinations and the situation on arrival, reorientation--and very often further migration after the Second World War--in Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Palestine, Shanghai, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Contributors are: Rony Alfandary, Gerrit-Jan Berendse, Albrecht Dümling, Patrick Farges, Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta, Jyoti Sabharwal, Sarah Schwab, Ursula Seeber, Andrea Strutz, Monica Tempian, Jutta Vinzent, Paul Weindling, and Veronika Zwerger"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Forgotten Destinations? Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Dominions, Colonies and Overseas Territories after 1933. An Introduction
Part 1. Conditions and Parameters of Flight to British Overseas Territories
1. Transnational Yekkishkeit from a Canadian Perspective
2. Interned as 'Enemy Aliens': Jewish Refugees from Austria, Germany and Italy in Canada
3. "No Single Loyalty": Processes of Identification among German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany in South Africa
4. Passages to the Antipodes: The Flight, Resettlement and Integration of Child Refugees in New Zealand
5. Restricted Refuge: Medical Refugees in New Zealand 1933-1945
6. To be a Refugee: Testimony of a Jewish Bulgarian Family, 1941-1948
Part 2. Literary, Musical and Artistic Refugees in British Overseas Territories
7. City Organist, Teacher and Entertainer: The Multi-Talented Werner Baer in Singapore, 1939-1940
8. The British Internment of Refugees from Nazi Germany in Kenya during World War II
9. Österreichisches Exil in Australien: Beispiele aus Puppentheater und Architektur
10. Kinder der Welt: Zwei Wiener Filmpioniere in Shanghai
11. The Gravitational Pull of the Old World: Karl Wolfskehl's Stagnated Poetic Oeuvre in Exile in New Zealand
12. Memories of Life and Cultural Production in Exile: Colonial India in the Autobiography, Essays and Film Scripts of Willy Haas
Index

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