In Defence of Learning

The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-726481-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 718 g

Established in the 1930s to rescue scientists and scholars from Nazi Europe, the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL, founded in 1933 as the Academic Assistance Council and now known as the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics) has had an illustrious career. No fewer than eighteen of its early grantees became Nobel Laureates and 120 were elected Fellows of the British Academy and Royal Society in the UK. While a good deal has been written on the SPSL in the 1930s and 1940s, and especially on the achievements of the outstanding scientists rescued, much less attention has been devoted to the scholars who contributed to the social sciences and humanities, and there has been virtually no research on the Society after the Second World War. The archive-based essays in this volume, written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the organisation, are the first to attempt to fill this gap. The essays include revisionist accounts of the founder of the SPSL and some of its early grantees. For the first time, the story examines its relationship with associates and allies, the experiences of women academics and those of the post- war academic refugees from Communist Europe, apartheid South Africa and Pinochet's Chile. In addition to scholarly contributions, the volume includes moving essays by the children of early grantees. At a time of increasing international concern with refugees and immigration, it is a timely reminder of the enormous contribution generations of academic refugees have made - and continue to make - to learning the world over.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marks, Shula

Weindling, Paul

Wintour, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Politische Unterdrückung & Verfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part 1. FOUNDERS AND FIRSTCOMERS

- 1: David Zimmerman: 'Protests Butter no Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938

- 2: William Lanouette: A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA

- 3: Paul Weindling: From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964

- 4: Gustav Born: Refugee Scientists in a New Environment

- 5: Georgina Ferry: Max Perutz and the SPSL

- PART 2. TESS - THE LINCHPIN

- 6: Paul Broda: Esther Simpson: A Correspondence

- 7: Lewis Elton: Eva and Esther

- PART 3. ASSOCIATES AND ALLIES

- 8: Gerald Kreft: 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft

- 9: Tibor Frank: Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933-1945

- 10: Susan Cohen: In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women

- 11: Stina Lyon: Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice

- PART 4. REVERSING THE GAZE

- 12: Christian Fleck: Austrian Refugee Social Scientists

- 13: Antoon de Baets: Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010

- 14: Marina Yu Sorokina: Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War

- 15: Antonín Kostlán and Soña Strbáñová: Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948-1989

- 16: Shula Marks: 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the UK, 1960-1980

- 17: Alan Phillips: Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL Collaboration

- Postscript

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Shula Marks: Born in Cape Town, Shula Marks was formerly Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, and is now Emeritus Professor of Southern African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Honorary Professor in the History Department at the University of Cape Town. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cape Town and Natal. She has lectured and written widely on South African history, including most recently chapters in the New Cambridge History of South Africa, vol. 2 (forthcoming), and has supervised some fifty doctoral students. She is currently researching a book on the history of social medicine. She was Chair of the Society for the Protection and Learning/Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and is still a member of CARA's Council.