Reference Books & Papers

Publications on the work of the AAC, SPSL and CARA 

Bentwich, N. (1953) The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars, The Hague: M. Nijhoff.
Beveridge, W. (1959) A Defence of Free Learning, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cooper, R. (1992) Refugee Scholars, Leeds: Moorland Books.
Cooper, R. (1996) Retrospective Sympathetic Affection, Leeds: Moorland Books.
Kohn, R. (2011) 'Nazi Persecution: Britain's rescue of academic refugees', European Review, vol. 19, no.2, pp. 255-283.
Seabrook, J. (2008) The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the flight from the tyranny, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Marks, S., Weindling, P., and Wintour, L. (eds.) (2011) In Defence of Learning: the plight, persecution and placement of academic refugees, 1933-1980s, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. Edited papers of the CARA Conference Dec. 2008.
Zimmerman, D. (2006) 'The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning and the Politicization of British Science in the 1930s', Minerva: vol.44, no. 1, pp. 25-45.

Background Reading

Includes books and papers by or about some of those helped by CARA.

Bentwich, N. (1956) They Found Refuge, London, Cresset Press.
Bernal, J.D. (1939) The Social Function of Science, London: Routledge.
Beveridge, W. (1953) Power and Influence: an autobiography, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Born, G. (2004) Max Born - A Celebration, Berlin: the Max Born Institute. Commemorating the 50th anniversary his Nobel Prize.
Brent, L. (1996) A History of Transplantation Immunology, San Diego and London: Academic Press.
Brent, L. (2008) Sunday's Child: A Memoir, New Romney, Kent: Bank House Books.
Carnegie, R. and van der Gaag, N. (2007) How the World Came to Oxford, Oxford: New Internationalist.
Ehrenburg, E. (1963) Sehnsucht: mein geliebtes kind, Frankfurt am Main: Ner-Tamid Verlag.
Ferry, G. (2007, 2008) Max Perutz and the Secret of Life, London: Chatto & Windus, p/back London: Pimlico.
Frisch, O. (1979) What Little I Remember, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gibbs, J. and Mapanje, J. (Eds) (1999) African Writers Handbook, Oxford: African Books Collective.
Gillman, P. and Gillman, L. (1980) Collar the lot! How Britain interned & expelled its wartime refugees, London: Quartet Books.
Greenspan, N.T. (2005) The End of the Certain World:  the life and science of Max Born, London: John Wiley and Sons.
Grenville, A. (2007a) 'Remembering Internment', Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, July, pp. 1-2.
Grenville, A. (2007b) 'Internment - the Sequel', Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, vol. 7, no. 8, August, pp. 1-2.
Hoch, P. K. (1986) 'Emigrés in Science and Technology Transfer', Physics in Technology, vol. 17, no. 5, September, pp. 225-230.
Holmes, F. L. (1991) Hans Krebs: the foundation of a scientific life, Vol. 1, New York: Oxford University Press.
Isaacson, W. (2007) Einstein. His Life and Universe, New York: Simon and Schuster.
Lanouette, W. (2nd ed., 1994) Genius in the Shadows: a biography of Leo Szilard, the man behind the bomb, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
London, L. (2000) Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kapuscinski, R. and Ascherson, N. (1983) The Emperor: downfall of an autocrat, London: Quartet Books.
Krebs, H. (1967) 'The Making of a Scientist', Nature, vol. 215, no. 5019, September 30, pp. 1441-5.
Lowe, A. (1935) Economics and Sociology, London: George Allen & Unwin.
Lowe, A. (1948) 'The Price of Liberty: An Essay on Contemporary Britain', Day to Day Pamphlets, 36, London: Hogarth Press.
Marton, K. (2006) The Great Escape: nine Jews who fled Hitler and changed the world, New York: Simon and Schuster.
Medawar, J. and Pyke, R. (2000) Hitler's Gift: scientists who fled Nazi Germany, London: Richard Cohen Books in association with the European Jewish Publication Society.
Mikes, G. (1954, rp. 1978) How to Be an Alien, London: Penguin Books.
Mzamane, M. (1982) Children of Soweto, Harlow: Longman.
O'Malley, B. (2010) Education Under Attack: a global study on targeted political and military violence against education staff, students, teachers, union and government officials, aid workers and institutions, Paris, UNESCO
Oz, A. (2005) A Tale of Love and Darkness, London: Vintage Books.
Pankhurst, E. S. (1931) The Suffragette Movement: an intimate account of persons and ideals, London: Longmans.
Pelz, W. (1969) I Am Adolf Hitler, London: SCM Press.
Perutz, M. (1985) 'Enemy Alien', New Yorker, 12 August, pp. 65-6.
Pevsner, N. (1936) Pioneers of the Modern Movement, London: Faber and Faber. Republished 1949 as Pioneers of Modern Design, New York: Museum of Modern Art, and in 1960, London: Penguin Books.
Pevsner, N. (1951-74) The Buildings of England (46 volumes), London: Penguin Books.
Pevsner, N. (ed. by Games, S.) (2002) Pevsner on Art and Architecture: the Radio Talks, London: Methuen. See also Christopher Long's review (2004-5) in Harvard Design Magazine, no. 21, Fall -Winter.
Popper, K.R. (1966) The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol II. The High Tide of Prophesy: Hegel, Marx and the aftermath, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Popper, K. R. (1982) Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Research), 7th edition, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr.
Rowlatt, B. and Witwit, M. (2010) Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad: the true story of an unlikely friendship, London:Penguin Books.
Sachs, A. (1966) The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, London: Harvill Press.
Sachs, A. (1978) Sexism and the Law: a study of male beliefs and judicial bias in Britain and America, Oxford: Blackwell.
Sachs, A. (1990) Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter, London: Grafton Books.
Saville, A. (2002) Only a Kindertransportee, London, New Millennium.
Sulzbacher, M. (et. al) (2007) 'Letters to the Editor', Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, vol. 7, no. 9, September, pp. 5-6.
Szekacs, J and Ward, I. Eds (2004) Lost Childhood and the Language of Exile, London: Imago East West and The Freud Museum.
Segal, L. (1965, 1995) Other People's Houses, London: Victor Gollancz; p/back: New York, The New Press.
Snowman, D. (2002, 2003) The Hitler Emigres: the cultural impact on Britain of refugees from Nazism, London: Chatto & Windus; p/back: Pimlico.
Wasserstein, B. (1979, 1999) Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945, Oxford: Clarendon Press; 2nd ed., Leicester University Press.
Werner, E. M. (ed.) (1991) Second Chance: two centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom, Tübingen: J.C.B.Mohr.
Williams, J. and Guemar, L. (eds.) (2008) Fragments in the Dark:  women writing home and self in Wales, Swansea: Hafan Books.
Yarnall Harthshorne, E. (1937) The German Universities and National Socialism, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.