Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Social Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,3 (2006) 157-192
Keywords:
Jews Education
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jewish refugees
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses the integration of a large number of foreign, mainly Jewish, refugee scholars in American colleges and universities between 1933-45. Stresses the role of American philanthropy, especially the Rockefeller Foundation and the largely Jewish Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars, in encouraging institutions to take on émigré scholars. Despite real economic and social concerns of the institutions, as well as antisemitism, which existed but was overestimated by the philanthropists, the latter succeeded (by 1940-41) in overcoming objections to their goals and in placing a large number of academics via financial incentives. Barriers of discrimination were broken down by convincing institutions that the professors were assets that the U.S. had gained "thanks" to Hitler's antisemitism.
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