1930s
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barbados
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european jews
hitler
holocaust
immigrant stories
jamaica
jewish history
Jewish immigration
jewish refugees
memoirs
nazi germany
nazis
persecution
religious freedom
trinidad
west indies
ww ii history
xenophobia
Product details
- ISBN 9781789203332
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of the war. At the same time, it gives an unsparing account of the xenophobia and bureaucratic infighting that nearly prevented their rescue-and that helped to seal the fate of countless other European Jews for whom escape was never an option.
Joanna Newman is the Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (www.acu.ac.uk) and a Senior Research Fellow in the history department at King's College London. She was Vice Principal (International) at King's College London and a Commonwealth Trust Commissioner and was awarded an MBE for services to British higher education in 2014. She is a regular speaker on issues relating to higher education and internationalization.
