In Defence of Learning : The Plight, Persecution, and Placement of Academic Refugees, 1933-1980s (Proceedings of the British Academy)

Marks, Shula (EDT)/ Weindling, Paul (EDT)/ Wintour, Laura (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2011/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780197264812
• DDC分類 305.55209

Full Description

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.

Contents

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