LEADER 06370cam a2200505Ii 4500001 259569 005 20240621231446.0 008 170913t20172017enka b 001 0 eng 010 2016948393 020 9780199687558 |q(hardback) 020 0199687552 |q(hardback) 035 (OCoLC)ocn955313262 035 259569 043 e-uk-en 049 LHMA 040 ERASA |beng |erda |cERASA |dYDXCP |dBDX |dBTCTA |dCDX |dDEBBG |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dEQO |dJ9U |dTFF |dOCLCQ |dIPL |dOCLCQ |dLHM 050 4 AZ621 |b.A75 2017 245 00 Ark of civilization : |brefugee scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 / |cedited by Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider, and Ja's Elsner. 250 First edition. 264 1 Oxford, United Kingdom : |bOxford University Press, |c2017. 264 4 |c©2017 300 xiv, 396 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 Oxford's Ark : World War II Refugees in the Arts and Humanities / Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider, and Jaś Elsner -- I. General -- Pfeiffer, Fraenkel, and Refugee Scholarship in Oxford during and after the Second World War / Jaś Elsner -- Academic Refugees in Wartime Oxford : An Overview / Anthony Grenville -- Welcoming and Supporting Refugee Scholars : The Role of Oxford's Colleges / Laurence Brockliss -- Out of the Archives : Oxford, the SPSL, and Literae Humaniores Refugee Scholars / Philip Davies -- Networks of Association : The Social and Intellectual Lives of Academics in Manx Internment Camps During World War II / Harold Mytum -- II. Archaeology and Philology -- Otto Brendel and the Classical Archaeologists at Oxford / Katharina Lorenz -- 'The Bund' and the Oxford Philological Society, 1939-45 / Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider -- Brian Shefton : Classical Archaeologist / David Gill -- The 'Cheshire Cat' : Paul Jacobsthal's Journey from Marburg to Oxford / Katharina Ulmschneider and Sally Crawford -- Eduard Fraenkel (1888-1970) / Christopher Stray -- III. History -- Arnaldo Momigliano on Peace and Liberty (1940) / Oswyn Murray -- Rudolf Olden in Oxford / Charmian Brinson and Marian Malet -- 'I shall snuffle about and make relations' : Nicolai Rubinstein, the Historian of Renaissance Florence, in Oxford during the War / Kate Lowe -- Karl Leyser, Oxford, and Wartime / Conrad Leyser -- IV. Art and Music -- Becoming Artists : Ernst Eisenmayer, Kurt Weiler, and Refugee Support Networks in Wartime Oxford / Fran Lloyd -- Milein Cosman at the Slade / Ann Rau Dawes -- From Onchan to Oxford - An Emigre Journey : Heinz Edgar Kiewe / Rachel Dickson -- Bringing Asia to Oxford : Dr. William Cohn and the Museum of Eastern Art / Alexander Cullen -- Shipwrecked on the Island of the Blessed : Egon Wellesz's New Beginnings in Wartime Oxford / Bojan Bujic -- V. Philosophy and Theology -- Jacob Leib Teicher between Florence and Cambridge : Arabic and Jewish Philosophy in Wartime Oxford / Anna Teicher -- Philosophy in Exile : The Contrasting Experiences of Ernst Cassirer and Raymond Klibansky in Oxford / Graham Whitaker -- VI. Publishing -- German-speaking Refugee Publishers in Oxford : Phaidon, Bruno Cassirer, and the Oxford University Press / Anna Nyburg -- A New Start - The English Publishing House Bruno Cassirer Oxford (1940-90). A Bibliographical Examination / Rahel Feilchenfeldt. 520 8 In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forced to flee to England following the rise of the Nazi regime, Germany's loss became Oxford's gain. From the mid-1930s onwards, Oxford could accurately be described as an 'ark of knowledge' of Western civilization: a place where ideas about art, culture, and history could be rescued, developed, and disseminated freely. The city's history as a place of refuge for scientists who were victims of Nazi oppression is by now familiar, but the story of its role as a sanctuary for cultural heritage, though no less important, has received much less attention. In this volume, the impact of Oxford as a shelter, a meeting point, and a centre of thought in the arts and humanities specifically is addressed, by looking both at those who sought refuge there and stayed, and those whose lives intersected with Oxford at crucial moments before and during the war. Although not every great refugee can be discussed in detail in this volume, this study offers an introduction to the unique conjunction of place, people, and time that shaped Western intellectual history, exploring how the meeting of minds enabled by libraries, publishing houses, and the University allowed Oxford's refugee scholars to have a profound and lasting impact on the development of British culture. Drawing on oral histories, previously unpublished letters, and archives, it illuminates and interweaves both personal and global histories to demonstrate how, for a short period during the war, Oxford brought together some of the greatest minds of the age to become the custodians of a great European civilization. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 610 20 University of Oxford |xHistory |y20th century. 610 27 University of Oxford. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00535968 610 27 University of Oxford. |2gnd |0(DE-588)36214-1 650 0 Political refugees |zEngland |zOxford |xHistory |y20th century. 650 7 Political refugees. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01069678 651 7 England |zOxford. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01205511 650 7 Flüchtling. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4017604-6 650 7 Akademiker. |2gnd |0(DE-588)4000881-2 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 700 1 Crawford, Sally |q(Sally Elizabeth Ellen), |eeditor. 700 1 Ulmschneider, Katharina, |eeditor. 700 1 Elsner, Jaś, |eeditor. 880 00 |6245-00Ark of civilization : |brefugee scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 / |cedited by Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider, and Jaś Elsner. 880 4 |6264-00 |c©2017 880 1 |6700-00Elsner, Jaś, |eeditor. 852 0 |bstacks |hAZ621 |i.A75 2017