Double Exile

Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945
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This is a social history of refugees escaping Hungary after the Bolshevik-type revolution of 1919, the ensuing counterrevolution, and the rise of anti-Semitism. Largely Jewish and German before World War I, the Hungarian middle class was torn by the disastrous war, the partitioning of Hungary in the Treaty of Trianon, and the numerus clausus act XXV in 1920 that seriously curtailed the number of Jews admitted to higher education. Hungary¿s outstanding future professionals, whether Jewish, Liberal or Socialist, felt compelled to leave the country and head to German-speaking universities in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. When Hitler came to power, these exiles were to flee again, many on the fringes of the huge German emigration. Emotionally prepared by their earlier threatening experiences in Hungary, they were quick to recognize the need to uproot themselves again. Many fled to the United States where their double exile catalyzed the USA into an active enemy of Nazi Germany and stimulated the transplantation of European modernism into American art and music. To their surprise, the refugees also encountered anti-Semitism in the USA. The book is based on extensive archival work in the USA and Germany.

This is a social history of refugees escaping Hungary after the Bolshevik-type revolution of 1919, the ensuing counterrevolution, and the rise of anti-Semitism. Largely Jewish and German before World War I, the Hungarian middle class was torn by the disastrous war, the partitioning of Hungary in the Treaty of Trianon, and the numerus clausus act XXV in 1920 that seriously curtailed the number of Jews admitted to higher education. Hungary¿s outstanding future professionals, whether Jewish, Liberal or Socialist, felt compelled to leave the country and head to German-speaking universities in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. When Hitler came to power, these exiles were to flee again, many on the fringes of the huge German emigration. Emotionally prepared by their earlier threatening experiences in Hungary, they were quick to recognize the need to uproot themselves again. Many fled to the United States where their double exile catalyzed the USA into an active enemy of Nazi Germany and stimulated the transplantation of European modernism into American art and music. To their surprise, the refugees also encountered anti-Semitism in the USA. The book is based on extensive archival work in the USA and Germany.

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VerlagPeter Lang
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2009
Seitenangabe504 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH22.5 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.8 cm 701 g
Auflage09001 A. 1. Auflage
ReiheExile Studies
AutorFrank, Tibor

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Über den Autor Tibor Frank

JACOB BARNAI Professor, Departments of Jewish History and of Israel Studies, University of Haifa, Israel RAGNAR BJÖRK Associate Professor, Södertörn University, Sweden CIARAN BRADY Fellow, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland CHRISTOPHER FISCHER Assistant Professor of History, Indiana State University, USA JÖRG HACKMANN DAAD Alfred-Döblin-Professor of East European History, University of Szczecin, Poland ILKKA LIIKANEN Professor of Border and Russian Studies, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland ANDREW LUDANYI Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, USA XOSÉ-MANOEL NÚÑEZ Professor of Modern History, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain ROBIN OKEY Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, UK UFFE ØSTERGÅRD Professor of European and Danish History, International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Demark MILAN ?EPA Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic NIEK VAN SAS Professor of Modern History, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands RAFAL STOBIECKI Professor, Chair of the History of Historiography, Lodz University, Lodz, Poland WERNER SUPPANZ Assistant Professor, Institute of History Contemporary History, University of Graz, Austria

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