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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Jewish refugees"”.
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Liberalism, Race and Humanitarianism: British Colonial Policy and Jewish Refugees 1938-1943
… thesis studies the British colonial response to Jewish refugees between 1938 and 1943. By assessing Britain’s ‘bystander’ response through the lens of the empire, this study expands on existing historiography and seeks not just to detail Britain’s limited action but also explain it. In this …
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"You'll Get Used to It!": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-43
… of the British Isles seemed imminent, some 2000 Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression were detained by the British Home Office as dangerous "enemy aliens" and sent to Canada to be interned for the duration of the war. While the British government admitted its mistake in interning the refugees …
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Japanese Photographic Documentation of Jewish Refugees in Kobe in 1941 in the Context of 1930s Social Documentary Photography
… is a rare representation of Japanese views on Jewish refugees at a time of great historical change. The project was carried out by six members of the Osaka-based Tampei Shashin Kurabu (Tampei Photography Club), led by Yasui Nakaji. My thesis addresses how these photographs can be read in the …
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Nearly the new world: refugees and the British west Indies, 1933-1945
… as a place of refuge, internment and transit for Jewish refugees from Europe during the interwar and Second World War period. It approaches the subject from the different perspectives of the British Government, West Indian colonies, refugee organisations and refugees themselves. It is divided into …
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Unwanted in the 'White Highlands': The Politics of Civil Society and the Making of a Refugee in Kenya, 1902--2002
This is a study of refugees as a social category of people who have fled their country of citizenship in search of safety. The study examines the generations of refugees who sought asylum in Kenya between 1902 and 2002. The study examines the genealogies and experiences of Jewish refugees from …
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The Palestinian Issue in the Middle East Peace Process: a Critical Appraisal
… process. The thesis describes the historical Jewish attachment to the land of Palestine and the steps that led to the creation of the Jewish homeland, culminating in the state of Israel. Upon declaring independence in 1948, the state of Israel was attacked militarily by the Arab world, …
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20,000 Fewer: The Wagner-Rogers Bill and the Jewish Refugee Crisis
… public and political body that fought to help Jewish refugees by standing up to the majority of citizens and politicians against higher immigration into the United States, and the story of the this Bill demonstrates what might have been possible and illuminates 20th century models of American …
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Policy and Practice in Franco-Jewish Migrant Aid
… co-ethnic migrant aid policies and practices of Jewish organisations in France between 1881 and 1975. Drawing on primary and secondary historical sources, the thesis is structured around three historical case studies of organised Jewish aid mobilisation. The first case study examines the …
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A right to leave : refugees, states, and international society
… in providing assistance and protection to refugees since 1648. It argues from a constructivist perspective that state interests and identities are shaped both by other actors in the international system - including norm entrepreneurs, non-governmental organizations, and international …
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Reshaping Memory: Counter-Narratives in Kindertransport Literature
… publications, ranging from her poems on the Jewish condition to her novels on the estrangement of German Jewish refugees in Britain, complicates perceptions of the redemptive celebratory narrative by complicating Britain's hospitable image. Barnett's corpus, which began with her academic …
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Exploring the Zionist evolution of Robert Briscoe: History and memory
… was the Dublin born son of Lithuanian and German-Jewish immigrants. As a young man he joined Sinn Féin and was an important figure in the War of Independence due to a role as one of the IRA’s main gun-procuring agents. He took the anti-Treaty side during an internecine Civil War, mainly due to the …
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A zsidó - arab koegzisztencia kultúraszociológiai és vallástörténeti dimenziói
… social and cultural processes that characterized Jewish-Arab coexistence in the Muslim Arab societies of the Middle East and North Africa. For this purpose I survey: A. a large body of primary sources that have for the most part not been available in Hungarian. These include: parts of medieval …