In defence of learning : the plight, persecution, and placement of academic refugees, 1933-1980s / edited by Shula Marks, Paul Weindling, and Laura Wintour.

"Contributions ... given at a conference held at ... the British Academy on 3-4 December 2008, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Academic Assistance Council (AAC) in 1933, later the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) (1936-98) and now the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA)"--P. [1].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Protests butter no parsnips: Lord Beveridge and the rescue of refugee academics from Europe, 1933-1938 -- A narrow margin of hope: Leo Szilard in the founding days of CARA -- From refugee assistance to freedom of learning: the strategic vision of A.V. Hill, 1933-1964 -- Refugee scientists in a new environment -- Max Perutz and the SPSL -- Esther Simpson: a correspondence -- Eva and Esther -- Dedicated to represent the true spirit of the German nation in the world: Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), founder of the Notgemeinschaft -- Organized rescue operations in Europe and the United States, 1933-1945 -- In defence of academic women refugees: the British Federation of University Women -- Karl Manheim and Viola Klein: refugee sociologists in search of social democratic practice -- Austrian refugee social scientists -- Plutarch's thesis: the contribution of refugee historians to historical writing, 1945-2010 -- Within two tyrannies: the Soviet academic refugees of the Second World War -- Czech scholars in exile, 1948-1989 -- Bending the rules: South African refugees iin the UK, 1960-1980 -- Refugee academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL collaboration.