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347 S.; Illustr.; 24 cm. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschlag stw. gering berieben. - Englisch. - Mit Beilage (Brief des Verlages an den Literaturwissenschaftler Eberhard Lämmert). - Among the several hundred thousand Jews and non-Jews who fled Germany and Nazi-occupied lands during the Third Reich were many of the finest minds of the twentieth century. Some escaped dramati-cally-writer Lion Feuchtwanger in a daring abduction from an internment camp, the elderly Heinrich Mann in a climb over the Pyrenees from France to Spain-though others left under less duress. Einstein, for example, renounced his German citizenship while he was on a trip to the United States. Once out of Hitler's Europe, the emigre artists and intellectuals had widely varied experiences. Several found great success. Hannah Arendt gained a vast audience for her blend of philosophy and history in such works as The Human Condition. Kurt Weill quickly absorbed American musical fashions to be-come one of the United States's most popular composers for the theater. But not all the refugees were as fortunate: Composer Bela Bartok found few audiences for his works and became increasingly bitter; author Stefan Zweig committed suicide in Brazil. The Muses Flee Hitler explores this diversity as it studies issues of cultural transfer and adaptation, as well as the interaction between exiles and hosts. Some countries closed their doors to the refugees; no country welcomed them with unreservedly open arms. "Nowhere were unlimited numbers of fleeing intellectuals accepted, regardless of how gifted they each might have been," explains coeditor Jarrell C. Jackman in his Introduction. ? (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Foreword -- S. DILLON RIPLEY -- Acknowledgments Introduction IARRELL C. JACKMAN -- BACKGROUND AND MIGRATION -- Anti-Intellectualism and the Cultural Decapitation of Germany under the Nazis ALAN BEYERCHEN -- The Movement of People in a Time of Crisis HERBERT A. STRAUSS -- American Refugee Policy in Historical Perspective ROGER DANIELS -- "Wanted by the Gestapo: Saved by America"- Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee CYNTHIA JAFFEE McCABE -- THE MUSES IN AMERICA -- Adaptation and Influence -- German Emigres in Southern California JARRELL C. JACKMAN -- Social Theory in a New Context H. STUART HUGHES -- Transplanting the Aits -- European Writers in Exile ALFRED KAZIN -- The Music World in Migration BORIS SCHWARZ -- American Skyscrapers and Weimar Modern: Transaction between Fact and Idea CHRISTIAN F. OTTO -- Interaction of Cultures: The Sciences -- The Migration of Physicists to the United States GERALD HOLTON -- Immigrants in American Chemistry P. THOMAS CARROLL -- Refugee Mathematicians in the United States, 1933-19-11: Reception and Reaction NATHAN REINGOLD -- CULTURAL ADAPTATION IN WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVE -- The Role of Switzerland for the Refugees HELMUT F. PFANNER -- Intellectual Emigres in Britain, 1933-1939 BERNARD WASSERSTEIN -- Canada and the Refugee Intellectual, 1933-1939 IRVING ABELLA and HAROLD TROPER -- Muses behind Barbed Wire: Canada and the Interned Refugees PAULA JEAN DRAPER -- Shanghai Chronicle: Nazi Refugees in China RENATA BERG-PAN -- The Reception of the Muses in the Circum-Caribbean JUDITH LAIKIN ELKIN -- Das andere Deutschland: The Anti-Fascist Exile Network in Southern South America RONALD C. NEWTON. ISBN 0874745543