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| Double Exile |
| Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945 |
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Exilstudien / Exile Studies  Vol. 7 |
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| Year of Publication: 2009 |
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| Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2009. 501 pp., 24 ill. |
| ISBN 978-3-03911-331-6 br. |
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| SFR 86.00 |
€* 59.40 |
€** 61.10 |
€ 55.50 |
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US-$ 85.95 |
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includes VAT - only valid for Austria |
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| Book synopsis |
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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. |
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| Contents |
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| Contents: Fin-de-Sičcle Budapest - The Hungarian Trauma: 1918-1920 - Berlin Junction - Second Expulsion, Double Trauma: 1933 - New York Asylum: Acceptance and Animosity - Problem Solving and the U.S. War Effort. |
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| Reviews |
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«Tibor Frank is the world's foremost expert on Hungarian scholars, scientists, and artists who chose exile or were forced into exile during the first half of the twentieth century. (...) Frank's description of the adventures of these extraordinary expatriates is as fascinating as is, for instance, his analysis of how some among them helped to develop the atomic and nuclear bombs as well as computers, thereby literally changing the way we live and think today.» (István Deák, Columbia University)
«This fascinating book goes far beyond Fermi's and Bailyn/Fleming's accounts and presents the whole story in all its transatlantic richness. (...) Finally, the individual profiles, most especially of Leo Szilard, but also of Michael Polanyi, George Pólya, Theodore von Kármán, and John von Neumann, give the collective story of so many names in so many fields of the sciences and social sciences its subjective and personal touches. At the end I was forced to contemplate the historical contingency that without the Hungarian 'gimnázium' there might not have been an American atomic bomb...» (Werner Sollors, Harvard University) |
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| About the author(s)/editor(s) |
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| The Author: Tibor Frank, M.A., Dr.Univ., Ph.D., D.Litt. is Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He has taught frequently at universities in the USA (UCSB, UCLA, Nevada-Reno, Columbia). In 2002 he won the prestigious German Humboldt Research Award and spent the academic year 2003-04 in the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. Professor Frank is a corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. |
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