Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry

Jewish Historical Studies

Volume 51, Issue 1

Issue date: 27 April 2020

Journal: Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry

Table of Contents: Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England , Volume 51 Issue 1 Michael Berkowitz	i
Introduction: Breadth and depth in the history of the Kindertransport and beyond Michael Berkowitz	ix
Archives and the Kindertransport: new discoveries and their impact on research Jennifer Craig-Norton	1
The Kindertransport from Vienna: the children who came and those left behind Paul Weindling	16
The experiences of Kindertransportees and their parents: evidence from the archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library Annabel Cohen, Barbara Warnock	33
The politics of compassion: the Refugee Children’s Movement and caring for the Kinder Rose Holmes	51
From “unwanted Jew” to “a brighter professional future”: Kinder girls and the nursing profession in wartime Britain Jane Brooks	68
Modelling bridges between past and current issues of forced migration: Frank Meisler’s memorial sculpture Kindertransport – The Arrival Marie-catherine Allard	86
The resilience of the refugee: how Kindertransport memoirs complicate understandings of “resilience” Stephanie Homer	105
Exploring the integration of child refugees in the United Kingdom: the case of the Kindertransport Ujjwal Krishna, Jody Harris, Rebecca Mitchell	119
The dominance of the national: on the susceptibility of Holocaust memory Bill Niven, Amy Williams	142
What the Kindertransportees tell us about the acquisition of English Eva-maria Thüne	165
The Dudley Refugee Committee and the Kindertransport, 1938–1945 Richard A. Hawkins	183
Wyberlye Ladies Convalescent Home, Burgess Hill Lesley Urbach	202
The emergence of the Kindertransport in Prague: the Barbican Mission to the Jews, a unique endeavour Nurit Grossman	208
“All the leaves have lost their trees”: the Kindertransport as an experience of uprooting in the poetry of Gerda Mayer Angharad Mountford	221
“My Mother”: Karen Gershon’s mother and daughters in her poems Anita Barmettler	232
Witnessed Improvised Diaspora Journey Enactments: an experiential method for exploring refugee history Jon Blend, Roz Carroll	246
Rescued twice: the French Kindertransport Differences from and similarities to the British Kindertransport Lilly Maier	267
American child welfare and the Wagner-Rogers Bill of 1939 Catherine Rymph	285
Was there a Jewish presence in medieval Ireland? Anna Matheson	301
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture Colum Kenny	326
Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: A Diplomatic and Palaeographical Study Sacha Stern	332
Perlzweig: Pioneer of British Zionism Geoffrey Alderman	334
Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt 1936–1939 Colin Shindler	336
The Federation of Synagogues: A New History Anne J. Kershen	339
Fighting on All Fronts: John Rothenstein in the Art World Samantha Baskind	342
People in a Magazine: The Selected Letters of S. N. Behrman and his Editors at The New Yorker Kent P. Ljungquist	345
Jews, Cinema, and Public Life in Interwar Britain Art Simon	348
The Exit Visa: A Family’s Flight from Nazi Europe Joachim Schlör	352
Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs Nathan Abrams	355
Battling Editor: The Albany Years Laurel Leff	357
“The word ‘Jew’ has several meanings in relation to commerce, but almost all negative”: on the evolution of a projection Lars Fischer	361