- Title Pages
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Preface
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1 Introduction: Jewish refugees in Manchester -
2 Speak no evil: Manchester Jewry and refugees, 1933–1937 -
3 ‘Displaced scholars’:1 -
4 ‘Refugees and Eccles Cakes’: refugee industrialists in the Manchester region -
5 ‘Something ought to be done’: Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1933–1937 -
6 The forgotten refugees: Manchester and the Basque children of 1937 -
7 ‘The work of succouring refugees is going forward’: the Manchester Jewish Refugees Committee, 1939–1940 -
8 ‘Serious concern’: the Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1938–1940 -
9 ‘Our remaining comrades in Czechoslovakia’: the Manchester branch of the KPD -
10 ‘Not because they are Jews’: the Catholic Church in Salford and refugees -
11 ‘Inspired idealism’: Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld and Manchester -
12 The Harris House girls: girls from the Kindertransport in Southport, 1938–1940 -
13 ‘A haven of safety’: refugees and the Manchester Women's Lodge of B’nai Brith -
14 ‘Outposts of Jewish Palestine’: young Zionist refugees in Manchester -
15 ‘The most difficult boys to handle’: refugees at the Stockport hostel, 1939–1940 -
16 ‘By the grace of the Almighty’: refugees and the Manchester Yeshiva -
17 ‘From slavery and persecution to freedom and kindness’: refugees at the Manchester Jewish Home for the Aged -
18 ‘Bright young refugees’: refugees and schools in the Manchester region -
19 ‘Humanitarianism of the greatest value’: Manchester Rotarians and refugees -
20 The saved and the trapped: refugees and those they left behind -
21 ‘The Dutch orphans’: war refugees in Manchester -
22 Pacifism and rescue: the case of Lionel Cowan -
23 Conclusion: the victims of Fascism and the liberal city - Bibliography
- Index
‘Displaced scholars’:1 refugees at the University of Manchester
‘Displaced scholars’:1 refugees at the University of Manchester
- Chapter:
- (p.34) 3 ‘Displaced scholars’:1 refugees at the University of Manchester
- Source:
- Jews and Other Foreigners
- Author(s):
Bill Williams
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
J'accuse gave a special place to Jewish academics, highlighting their contributions to German science and culture and depicting their harassment and dismissal as the most evident indication of Germany's return to barbarism. They were noted too as one of several ways in which Britain might benefit from German obscurantism. In assessing the response of the University of Manchester to refugee scholars, it is difficult to avoid the benefit of hindsight. From that perspective, the offer of thirty-three temporary academic posts between 1933 and 1939 seems less than generous. Manchester stood fourth to Oxford, Cambridge and the LSE, although a rather distant fourth in the case of Oxbridge, in the league of British universities which received displaced scholars. Still, there can be no doubting the gains made by Manchester's programmes of rescue for the academic and business communities of Britain, Europe, the United States and Israel.
Keywords: Nazi regime, J'accuse, Manchester, Oxford, University of Manchester, British universities
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- Title Pages
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Preface
-
1 Introduction: Jewish refugees in Manchester -
2 Speak no evil: Manchester Jewry and refugees, 1933–1937 -
3 ‘Displaced scholars’:1 -
4 ‘Refugees and Eccles Cakes’: refugee industrialists in the Manchester region -
5 ‘Something ought to be done’: Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1933–1937 -
6 The forgotten refugees: Manchester and the Basque children of 1937 -
7 ‘The work of succouring refugees is going forward’: the Manchester Jewish Refugees Committee, 1939–1940 -
8 ‘Serious concern’: the Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1938–1940 -
9 ‘Our remaining comrades in Czechoslovakia’: the Manchester branch of the KPD -
10 ‘Not because they are Jews’: the Catholic Church in Salford and refugees -
11 ‘Inspired idealism’: Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld and Manchester -
12 The Harris House girls: girls from the Kindertransport in Southport, 1938–1940 -
13 ‘A haven of safety’: refugees and the Manchester Women's Lodge of B’nai Brith -
14 ‘Outposts of Jewish Palestine’: young Zionist refugees in Manchester -
15 ‘The most difficult boys to handle’: refugees at the Stockport hostel, 1939–1940 -
16 ‘By the grace of the Almighty’: refugees and the Manchester Yeshiva -
17 ‘From slavery and persecution to freedom and kindness’: refugees at the Manchester Jewish Home for the Aged -
18 ‘Bright young refugees’: refugees and schools in the Manchester region -
19 ‘Humanitarianism of the greatest value’: Manchester Rotarians and refugees -
20 The saved and the trapped: refugees and those they left behind -
21 ‘The Dutch orphans’: war refugees in Manchester -
22 Pacifism and rescue: the case of Lionel Cowan -
23 Conclusion: the victims of Fascism and the liberal city - Bibliography
- Index
