Continental Britons

German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84545-090-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Based on numerous in-depth and personal interviews with members of three generations, this is the first comprehensive study of German-Jewish refugees who came to England in the 1930s. The author addresses questions such as perceptions of Germany and Britain and attitudes towards Judaism. On the basis of many case studies, the author shows how the refugees adjusted, often amazingly successfully, to their situation in Britain. While exploring the process of acculturation of the German-Jews in Britain, the author challenges received ideas about the process of Jewish assimilation in general, and that of the Jews in Germany in particular, and offers a new interpretation in the light of her own empirical data and of current anthropological theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berghahn, Marion

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction


I. Problems of Identity


II. Concepts of Assimilation and Ethnic Identity

1. The Process of Jewish Assimilation in Germany


The Debate of German-Jewish Assimilation


Towards a Re-definition of German-Jewish Ethnic Identity

2. Life Under the Threat of Nazism


The Crisis of the German-Jewish Identity


A Period of Re-orientation


The Significance of the Eastern European Jewish Immigrants


Aspects of Jewish-Gentile Relationships in the 1930s


Effects of the Nazi Policies on the German-Jewish Community

3. Emigration


Academics


The Medical Profession


The Legal Profession


Artists


Business People


November 1938

4. Search for New Roots


The Burden of the Past


German-Jewish Institutions

5. The Ambiguities of Ethnic Identification


England—A New Haven?


Germany—A Winter’s Tale

6. ‘Continental’ Britons


Problems of Identity


Elements of Continental Ethnicity


Encounters with Anglo-Jewry


The Third Generation

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berghahn, Marion
Marion Berghahn, Independent Scholar and Publisher, studied American Studies, Romance Languages and Philosophy at the universities of Hamburg, Freiburg and Paris. She went on to receive an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, followed by a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick. These subjects, together with history, later on formed the basis of her scholarly publishing program.