'Caught In A Snare': Hitler's Refugee Academics 1933-1949 (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed,Signed with inscription
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When Hitler's grip tightened across Europe in 1933, thousands of Jewish and dissident academics were cast out of their universities, their careers destroyed and their futures thrown into terrifying uncertainty — Caught in a Snare chronicles the harrowing journeys of these refugee scholars as they fled Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1949, tracing their desperate attempts to rebuild their intellectual lives in exile. Barbara Falk presents a meticulously researched account of the human cost of ideological tyranny, illuminating the professional and personal struggles of men and women who had dedicated their lives to scholarship only to find themselves stateless and unwanted in a world convulsed by war. Drawing on archival sources, Falk illustrates how the displacement of these academics reshaped universities and intellectual culture across the globe, while never losing sight of the individual tragedies at the heart of this history. Published by the History Department of the University of Melbourne, this work argues that the story of Hitler's refugee academics is not merely a footnote to the Holocaust, but a defining episode in the history of modern thought — one that raises urgent questions about the relationship between knowledge, power, and human dignity that resonate far beyond 1949.
Author: Barbara Falk
Format: Paperback
Published: 1998, History Department, The University of Melbourne
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed,Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When Hitler's grip tightened across Europe in 1933, thousands of Jewish and dissident academics were cast out of their universities, their careers destroyed and their futures thrown into terrifying uncertainty — Caught in a Snare chronicles the harrowing journeys of these refugee scholars as they fled Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1949, tracing their desperate attempts to rebuild their intellectual lives in exile. Barbara Falk presents a meticulously researched account of the human cost of ideological tyranny, illuminating the professional and personal struggles of men and women who had dedicated their lives to scholarship only to find themselves stateless and unwanted in a world convulsed by war. Drawing on archival sources, Falk illustrates how the displacement of these academics reshaped universities and intellectual culture across the globe, while never losing sight of the individual tragedies at the heart of this history. Published by the History Department of the University of Melbourne, this work argues that the story of Hitler's refugee academics is not merely a footnote to the Holocaust, but a defining episode in the history of modern thought — one that raises urgent questions about the relationship between knowledge, power, and human dignity that resonate far beyond 1949.