Ark of Civilization
Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 March 2017
- ISBN 9780199687558
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 241x160x25 mm
- Weight 822 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 38 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 addresses Oxford's role as a shelter, a meeting point, and a centre of thought in the arts and humanities in the midst of WWII, interweaving personal and global histories to explore how refugee scholars had a profound and lasting impact on the development of British culture.
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In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forced to flee to England following the rise of the Nazi regime, Germany's loss became Oxford's gain.
From the mid-1930s onwards, Oxford could accurately be described as an 'ark of knowledge' of western civilization: a place where ideas about art, culture, and history could be rescued, developed, and disseminated freely. The city's history as a place of refuge for scientists who were victims of Nazi oppression is by now familiar, but the story of its role as a sanctuary for cultural heritage, though no less important, has received much less attention.
In this volume, the impact of Oxford as a shelter, a meeting point, and a centre of thought in the arts and humanities specifically is addressed, by looking both at those who sought refuge there and stayed, and those whose lives intersected with Oxford at crucial moments before and during the war. Although not every great refugee can be discussed in detail in this volume, this study offers an introduction to the unique conjunction of place, people, and time that shaped Western intellectual history, exploring how the meeting of minds enabled by libraries, publishing houses, and the University allowed Oxford's refugee scholars to have a profound and lasting impact on the development of British culture. Drawing on oral histories, previously unpublished letters, and archives, it illuminates and interweaves both personal and global histories to demonstrate how, for a short period during the war, Oxford brought together some of the greatest minds of the age to become the custodians of a great European civilization.
this book documents stories of individuals and institutions showing imagination as well as sympathy ... it is good to be reminded of more enlightened and more generous impulses
Table of Contents:
Oxford's Ark: World War II Refugees in the Arts and Humanities
I. General
Pfeiffer, Fraenkel, and Refugee Scholarship in Oxford during and after the Second World War
Academic Refugees in Wartime Oxford: An Overview
Welcoming and Supporting Refugee Scholars: The Role of Oxford's Colleges
Out of the Archives: Oxford, the SPSL, and Literae Humaniores Refugee Scholars
Networks of Association: The Social and Intellectual Lives of Academics in Manx Internment Camps During World War II
II. Archaeology and Philology
Otto Brendel and the Classical Archaeologists at Oxford
'The Bund' and the Oxford Philological Society, 1939-45
Brian Shefton: Classical Archaeologist
The 'Cheshire Cat': Paul Jacobsthal's Journey from Marburg to Oxford
Eduard Fraenkel (1888-1970)
III. History
Arnaldo Momigliano on Peace and Liberty (1940)
Rudolf Olden in Oxford
'I shall snuffle about and make relations': Nicolai Rubinstein, the Historian of Renaissance Florence, in Oxford during the War
Karl Leyser, Oxford, and Wartime
IV. Art and Music
Becoming Artists: Ernst Eisenmayer, Kurt Weiler, and Refugee Support Networks in Wartime Oxford
Milein Cosman at the Slade
From Onchan to Oxford - An Émigré Journey: Heinz Edgar Kiewe
Bringing Asia to Oxford: Dr William Cohn and the Museum of Eastern Art
Shipwrecked on the Island of the Blessed: Egon Wellesz's New Beginnings in Wartime Oxford
V. Philosophy and Theology
Jacob Leib Teicher between Florence and Cambridge: Arabic and Jewish Philosophy in Wartime Oxford
Philosophy in Exile: The Contrasting Experiences of Ernst Cassirer and Raymond Klibansky in Oxford
VI. Publishing
German-speaking Refugee Publishers in Oxford: Phaidon, Bruno Cassirer, and the Oxford University Press
A New Start - The English Publishing House Bruno Cassirer Oxford (1940-90). A Bibliographical Examination
