The Evian Conference of 1938 and the Jewish Refugee CrisisPaul R. Bartrop
In the first English-language monograph on the Evian Conference, Paul R. Bartrop, director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, argues that the conference should not be dismissed as a failure. It was “successful in achieving what it set out to a...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 136-138 |
| Review of: | The Evian Conference of 1938 and the Jewish refugee crisis (Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) (Erbelding, Rebecca)
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| Summary: | In the first English-language monograph on the Evian Conference, Paul R. Bartrop, director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, argues that the conference should not be dismissed as a failure. It was “successful in achieving what it set out to achieve, namely to enable an exchange of information among the states attending” (p. vii). “This is a story,” he continues, “about a joint global effort which had as its main objective the quest to do nothing.” Bartrop’s book, while providing basic information about the conference and arguing against judgments based on hindsight, suffers from a lack of archival research. The Evian Conference of 1938 is, therefore, a useful first pass, but is unfortunately not an insightful history. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz007 |