Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford

Browse All Books
Continental Britons: German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

View Table of Contents


Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

Continental Britons

German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

Marion Berghahn

280 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-090-8 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (March 2007)

eISBN 978-1-78920-369-1 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781845450908


View CartYour country: - edit Buy the eBook from these vendorsRequest a Review or Examination Copy (in Digital Format)Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

NEW & REVISED EDITION

Reviews

“…a scholarly yet readable book…pioneering work.” • Journal of Jewish Studies

Description

Based on numerous in-depth and personal interviews with members of three generations, this is the first comprehensive study of German-Jewish refugees who came to England in the 1930s. The author addresses questions such as perceptions of Germany and Britain and attitudes towards Judaism. On the basis of many case studies, the author shows how the refugees adjusted, often amazingly successfully, to their situation in Britain. While exploring the process of acculturation of the German-Jews in Britain, the author challenges received ideas about the process of Jewish assimilation in general, and that of the Jews in Germany in particular, and offers a new interpretation in the light of her own empirical data and of current anthropological theory.

Marion Berghahn, Independent Scholar and Publisher, studied American Studies, Romance Languages and Philosophy at the universities of Hamburg, Freiburg and Paris. She went on to receive an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, followed by a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick. These subjects, together with history, later on formed the basis of her scholarly publishing program.

Subject: Jewish StudiesRefugee and Migration StudiesHistory: 20th Century to PresentSociology
Area: EuropeGermany


Contents

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend Continental Britons German-Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $34.95

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.