Nearly the New World

The British West Indies and the Flight from Nazism, 1933–1945

Joanna Newman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781789203332 (ISBN)

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In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as the West Indies in search of refuge. Nearly the New World tells the remarkable story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of World War II

“In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies...”—Times Higher Education

In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler’s Europe.

Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of the war. At the same time, it gives an unsparing account of the xenophobia and bureaucratic infighting that nearly prevented their rescue—and that helped to seal the fate of countless other European Jews for whom escape was never an option.

From the introduction:

This book is called Nearly the New World because for most refugees who found sanctuary, it was nearly, but not quite, the New World that they had hoped for. The British West Indies were a way station, a temporary destination that allowed them entry when the United States, much of South and Central America, the United Kingdom and Palestine had all become closed. For a small number, it became their home. This is the first comprehensive study of modern Jewish emigration to the British West Indies. It reveals how the histories of the Caribbean, of refugees, and of the Holocaust connect through the potential and actual involvement of the British West Indies as a refuge during the 1930s and the Second World War.

Joanna Newman is Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (www.acu.ac.uk) and a Senior Research Fellow in the history department at King’s College London. She was Vice Principal (International) at King’s College London and a Commonwealth Trust Commissioner and was awarded an MBE for services to British higher education in 2014. She is a regular speaker on issues relating to higher education and internationalization.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Contextual Drivers: The British West Indies, the Colonial Office and Jewish Refugee Organisations

PART I: CONFRONTING THE NEED FOR REFUGE

Chapter 2. Jews Seeking Refuge, 1933–1938

Chapter 3. Panic Migration: The British West Indies And The Refugee Crisis Of 1938/39

PART II: CONFRONTING THE NEED FOR RESCUE

Chapter 4. Boat People

Chapter 5. Internment, Camps and Missed Opportunities

Epilogue

Select Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	27 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781789203332 / 9781789203332
Zustand	Neuware