Jews and Other Foreigners
Manchester and the Rescue of the Victims of European Fascism, 1933-40
Published on 28. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-7190-8995-4 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on a wide range of 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. -- .
Reviews / Votes
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, December 2012
'This remarkable and important book is a major contribution to our knowledge'
Alan Crosby, Northern History, September 2012
Short-listed for 2012 The Portico Prize for Non Fiction
The book is distinguished by the exemplary thoroughness of its research. Williams displays a remarkable knowledge of Manchester Jewry, its communal institutions and organisations, its personalities, places of worship and, not least, internal divisions. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-8995-4 (9780719089954)
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Bill Williams
Jews and Other Foreigners
Manchester and the Rescue of the Victims of European Fascism, 1933-40
E-Book
07/2013
Manchester University Press
€34.99
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Person
Bill Williams is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester. -- .
Content
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 -- .
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 -- .