Holocaust Refugees in Global Perspective

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

Historians have increasingly called attention to the global scope of the Holocaust, using local, national, and Jewish communal archives to trace the experience of refugees from Nazi Europe in diverse locations; awareness of and discourse about Jewish victims throughout the Jewish world; and the work of international Jewish movements and organizations in facilitating and responding to such movements. This panel brings together four papers that weave together such a global history, moving from the Jews of the Arab world who discussed unfolding events and refugee movements in Europe; to Spain, China, and France, each one a destination for Jewish refugees involved in its own political, regional, and imperial entanglements.

Sub Unit

• Modern Jewish History in Europe, Asia, Israel, and Other Communities

Chair

• Oskar Czendze, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Individual Presentations

• The Jewish Arabic Press and German Jews: 1933-1939 - Maytal Mark, New York University

• Holocaust Refugees in Tianjin: a Colonial Experience? - Silvia Pin, University of Pavia

• Agency of the clandestine refugees in Spain during WW2 – case study of Polish Jews - Dorota Choinska, The University of Wroclaw, Open University of Catalonia

• But Where Will We Go? France and Jewish Refugees in the Twentieth Century - Meredith Scott, US Air Force Academy

Zoom Host

• Zoom Host 15