Jewish Historical Studies
 
Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England
 
Volume 51, 2019
 
Edited by Michael Berkowitz 
 
Contents
 
 
Cover illustration
 
Introduction: Breadth and depth in the history of Kindertransport and beyond
Michael Berkowitz
 
Kindertransport Symposium Papers
 
Archives and the Kindertransport: new discoveries and their impact on research
Jennifer Craig-Norton
 
The Kindertransport from Vienna: the children who came and those left behind
Paul Weindling
 
The experiences of Kindertransportees and their parents: evidence from the archives of the Wiener Holocaust Library
Annabel Cohen & Barbara Warnock
 
The politics of compassion: the Refugee Children’s Movement and caring for the Kinder
Rose Holmes
 
From “unwanted Jew” to “a brighter professional future”: Kinder girls and the nursing profession in wartime Britain
Jane Brooks
 
Modelling bridges between past and current issues of forced migration: Frank Meisler’s memorial sculpture Kindertransport – The Arrival
Marie-Catherine Allard
 
The resilience of the refugee: how Kindertransport memoirs complicate understandings of “resilience”
Stephanie Homer
 
Exploring the integration of child refugees into the United Kingdom: the case of the Kindertransport
Ujjwal Krishna, Jody Harris, & Rebecca Mitchell
 
The dominance of the national: on the susceptibility of Holocaust memory
Bill Niven & Amy Williams
 
What the Kindertransportees tell us about the acquisition of English
Eva-Maria Thüne
 
The Dudley Refugee Committee and the Kindertransport, 1938-45
Richard A. Hawkins
 
Wyberlye Ladies Convalescent Home, Burgess Hill
Lesley Urbach
 
The emergence of the Kindertransport in Prague: the Barbican Mission to the Jews, a unique endeavour
Nurit Grossman
 
“All the leaves have lost their trees”: the Kindertransport as an experience of uprooting in the poetry of Gerda Mayer
Angharad Mountford
 
“My Mother”: Karen Gershon’s mother and daughters in her poems
Anita Barmettler
 
Witnessed Improvised Diaspora Journey Enactments: an experiential method for exploring refugee history
Jon Blend & Roz Carroll
 
Rescued twice: the French Kindertransport
Lilly Maier
 
American child welfare and the Wagner-Rogers Bill of 1939
Catherine Rymph
 
Was there a Jewish presence in medieval Ireland?
Anna Matheson
 
Reviews
 
Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture edited by Aidan Beatty and Dan O’Brien
Colum Kenny
 
Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: A Diplomatic and Palaeographic Study by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Sacha Stern
 
Perlzweig: Pioneer of British Zionism by Maurice L. Perlzweig, edited by David Caute
Geoffrey Alderman
 
Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 by Matthew Hughes
Colin Shindler
 
The Federation of Synagogues: A New History by Geoffrey Alderman
Anne J. Kershen
 
Fighting on All Fronts: John Rothenstein in the Art World by Adrian Clark
Samantha Baskind
 
People in a Magazine: The Selected Letters of S. N. Behrman and his Editors at The New Yorker edited by Joseph Goodrich, introduction by Thomas Vinciguerra
Kent P. Ljungquist
 
Jews, Cinema, and Public Life in Interwar Britain by Gil Toffell
Art Simon
 
The Exit Visa: A Family’s Flight from Nazi Europe by Sheila Rosenberg
Joachim Schlör
 
Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs edited by Donald Albrecht and Sean Corcoran
Nathan Abrams
 
Battling Editor: The Albany Years by Harry Rosenfeld
Laurel Leff
 
Review Essay
 
“The word ‘Jew’ has several meanings in relation to commerce, but almost all negative”: on the evolution of a projection
Lars Fischer