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Books and Reference Papers
Various books have been written on and around CARA's history and those listed below are available through libraries and bookshops. If you have problems obtaining a reference or personal copy, please contact the CARA office
-Bentwich, Norman. The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1953).
-Beveridge, William. A Defence of Free Learning (London: Oxford University Press, 1959).
-Cooper, Ray. Refugee Scholars (Leeds: Moorland Books, 1992).
-Cooper, Ray. Retrospective Sympathetic Affection (Leeds: Moorland Books, 1996).
-Seabrook, Jeremy. 'The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the flight from the tyranny.' (Palgrave Macmillan, Published to mark CARA's 75th Anniversary in November 2008. See more
-CARA' held a 2 day academic conference in December 2008, entitled 'In Defence of Learning: The Past and the Present'. A publication of the papers will be available in January 2010 and a conference programme is available here. For further details about any of the papers or speakers, please contact the CARA office.
The books and papers listed below provide good background reading to CARA's history. The list includes a number of books about those helped in the early years and a variety of books which outline the issues the organisation faced. Most books are available in libraries and bookshops.
-(The) African Writers Handbook, edited by James Gibbs and Jack Mapanje (Oxford: African Books Collective, 1999).
-Association of Jewish Refugees Journal, September 2007, letters to the editor. (See also below.)
-Bentwich, Norman. They found Refuge (London, the Cresset Press, 1956)
-Bernal, J.D. The Social Function of Science (London: Routledge, 1939).
-Beveridge, William. 'Power and Influence: an autobiography. (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1953)
-Brent, Leslie. A History of Transplantation Immunology (San Diego and London: Academic Press, 1996).
-Brent, Leslie. Sunday's Child: A Memoir (New Romney, Kent: Bank House Books, 2008).
-Carnegie, Rory and van der Gaag, Nikki. How the World Came to Oxford (Oxford: New Internationalist, 2007).
-Ehrenburg, Eva. Sehnsucht - mein geliebtes Kind (Frankfurt am Main: Ner-Tamid Verlag, 1963).
-Ferry, Georgina. Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (London: Chatto & Windus, 2007: p/back: Pimlico, 2008).
-Frisch, Otto. What Little I Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
-Gillman, Peter and Gillman, Leni. 'Collar the lot!' How Britain Interned & Expelled its Wartime Refugees (London: Quartet Books, new ed., 1980).
-Grenville, Anthony. 'Remembering Internment' and 'Internment - the Sequel', Association of Jewish Refugees Journal (London: July and August 2007).
-Hoch, Paul K. 'Emigrés in science and technology transfer', Physics in Technology 17 No. 5 (September 1986).
-Holmes, Frederic L. Hans Krebs: The Foundation of a Scientific Life, Vol. 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
-Isaacson, Walter. Einstein. His life and universe. New York, Simon and Schuster, 2007
-Lanouette, William. Genius in the Shadows: a Biography of Leo Szilard - The Man behind the Bomb (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
-London, Louise. Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-1948 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
-Max Born - A Celebration. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Max Born's award of the Nobel Prize (Berlin: the Max Born Institute, 2004).
-Kapuscinski, Ryszard and Ascherson, Neal. The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (London: Quartet Books, 1983)
-Krebs, Hans. 'The Making of a Scientist', Nature 215, 30 September 1967, pp. 1441-5.
-Lost Childhood and the Language of Exile, edited by Judit Szekacs-Weisz and Ivan Ward (London: Imago East West and the Freud Museum, 2004).
-Lowe, Adolphe. Economics and Sociology (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1935).
-Lowe, Adolphe. The Price of Liberty: An Essay on Contemporary Britain (Day to day pamphlets no. 36) (London: Hogarth Press, 1948).
-Marton, Kati. The Great Escape: nine Jews who fled Hitler and changed the world. New York, Simon and Schuster, 2006
-Medawar, Jean and Pyke, Richard. Hitler's Gift; Scientists who fled Nazi Germany: (London: Richard Cohen Books in association with the European Jewish Publication Society, 2000).
-Mikes, George. How to Be an Alien (London: Penguin Books, 1978 (first pub. 1954)).
-Mzamane, Mbulelo. Children of Soweto (Harlow: Longman, 1982).
-Oz, Amos. A Tale of Love and Darkness (London: Vintage Books, 2005).
-Pankhurst, E. Sylvia. The Suffragette Movement: an intimate account of persons and ideals (London: Longmans, 1931).
-Pelz, Werner. I Am Adolf Hitler (London: SCM Press, 1969).
-Perutz, Max. 'Enemy Alien', New Yorker, 12 August 1985.
-Pevsner on Art and Architecture, Introduction by Stephen Games (London: Methuen, 2002). See also Christopher Long's review in the Harvard Design Magazine no. 21, Fall 2004-Winter 2005.
-Pevsner, Nikolaus. Pioneers of the Modern Movement (London: Faber and Faber, 1936). Republished as Pioneers of Modern Design (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1949, and London: Penguin Books, 1960).
-Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England (46 volumes) (London: Penguin Books, 1951-74).
-Popper, Karl. Logik der Forschung (The Logic of Research), 7th edition (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1982).
-Popper, K.R. The Open Society and its Enemies. Vol II The Hide Tide of Prophesy: Hegel, Marx and the aftermath. London, Routledge & Kegan, 1966
-Sachs, Albie. The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (London: Harvill Press, 1966).
-Sachs, Albie. Sexism and the Law: A Study of Male Beliefs and Judicial Bias in Britain and America (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978).
-Sachs, Albie. Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (London: Grafton Books, 1990).
-Saville, Annette. Only a Kindertransportee. London, New Millennium, 2002
-Second Chance: Two Centuries of German-speaking Jews in the United Kingdom, coordinating editor Werner E. Mosse (Tübingen: J.C.B.Mohr, 1991).
-Segal, Lore. Other People's Houses (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965; p/back: New York, The New Press, 1995).
-Snowman, Daniel. The Hitler Emigres: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism (London: Chatto & Windus, 2002; p/back: Pimlico, 2003).
-Wasserstein, Bernard. Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979; 2nd ed., Leicester University Press, 1999).
-Yarnall Harthshorne, E. The German Universities and National Socialism (London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1937)
-Zimmerman, David. 'The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning and the Politicization of British Science in the 1930S', Minerva, vol. 44, no. 1, March 2006.