Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of Manchester society, from Jewish communal organisations and the Zionist movement to the Christian churches, pacifist organisations and private charities, it offers a critical analysis of the factors which facilitated and limited the work of rescue and their effect on the lives of the seven or eight thousand refugees - Spanish, Italian, German, Austrian and Czech - who arrived in Manchester between 1933 and 1940.
| ISBN | 0719085497 | | Pages | 496 | | ISBN13 | 9780719085499
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 794 | | Publisher | Manchester University Press | | Published in | Manchester | | Imprint | Manchester University Press | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Publication date | 01 Sep 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 41 | | DEWEY | 362.87094273309044 | | Academic level | Further/Higher education | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | |
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Preface 1. Introduction: Jewish refugees in Manchester 2. 'Speak no evil': Manchester Jewry and refugees, 1933-37 3. 'Displaced scholars': Refugees at the University of Manchester 4. Refugees and Eccles cakes: Refugee industrialists in the Manchester region 5. 'Something ought to be done': Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1933-37 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 1939-40 8. 'Serious concern': The Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1938-40 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 kindertransporte in Southport 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, 1939-40 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 Home for the Jewish 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
The distinctiveness of this work is indisputable and it sets the standard for a new kind of micro-historical approach to the subject. Jennifer Craig-Norton, Reviews in History, 01/03/2012 -- Jennifer Craig-Norton. Reviews in History 20120301
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