Nearly the New World. The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945Joanna Newman
Joanna Newman has conducted in-depth research on the little-studied British West Indies using a variety of archival materials from key Jewish organizations in Great Britain and the United States (the American Joint Distribution Committee, HICEM, World Jewish Congress, and Central Council for German...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 527-529 |
| Review of: | Nearly the New World (New York : Berghahn, 2019) (Afoumado, Diane)
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| Summary: | Joanna Newman has conducted in-depth research on the little-studied British West Indies using a variety of archival materials from key Jewish organizations in Great Britain and the United States (the American Joint Distribution Committee, HICEM, World Jewish Congress, and Central Council for German Jewry). She threads refugees’ narratives throughout the book, humanizing her analysis while also contributing to memorialization., Newman’s purpose is to shed light on how the British West Indies factored into the refugee crisis and rescue efforts. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa045 |