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Well Worth Saving

- American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe
Engelsk Hardback

Well Worth Saving

- American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe
Engelsk Hardback

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A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Nazi-dominated Europe--a finalist for a 2020 National Jewish Book Award The United States’ role in saving Europe’s intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap and Richard Courant, among hundreds of other physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, chemists, and linguists who transformed the American academy. Yet for every scholar who survived and thrived, many, many more did not.   To be hired by an American university, a refugee scholar had to be world-class and well connected, not too old and not too young, not too right and not too left, and, most important, not too Jewish. Those who were unable to flee were left to face the horrors of the Holocaust. In this rigorously researched book, Laurel Leff rescues from obscurity scholars who were deemed “not worth saving” and tells the riveting, full story of the hiring decisions universities made during the Nazi era.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9780300243871
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0300243871
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Udg. Dato:
11 feb 2020
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
134mm
Højde:
233mm
Forlag:
Yale University Press
Oplagsdato:
11 feb 2020
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