How did understandings of Europe change and evolve after the Second World War? During this time, two Polish exiles, Jerzy Stempowski and Andrzej Bobkowski, discussed and redefined their ideas of Europe in the pages of Kultura, the Polish émigré review.  Meer

This book examines the relation between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century world literature. Exploring the dynamic from a comparative and translingual perspective, this volume reveals differing literary strategies for responding to exile and argues for the crucial role of exile in understanding writing of the period.  Meer

This history of Jewish musicians who migrated to Australia traces their difficult journey to a distant continent. Drawing on extensive primary sources – including correspondence, travel documents and interviews with the refugees themselves or their descendants – the author depicts in vivid detail the lives of nearly a hundred displaced musicians.  Meer

After leaving Nazi Germany in 1936, the actor now known as Anton Walbrook settled in Britain, where he starred in lavish biopics of Queen Victoria as well as Dangerous Moonlight and Gaslight.  Meer

In this book, the author engages in conversations with North American writers of Lithuanian and Litvak heritage who reflect on how their inheritance from an ancestral land they claim as a birthright shapes their identity and writing.  Meer

This book aims to illuminate the life and work of four German-speaking writers exiled in Britain after 1933. Gerda Mayer, Gabriele Tergit, Ruth Feiner and Eva Priester, in different and unique ways, all articulate ideas of (national) identity and home in their work, opening up new ways of understanding the impact of exile and gender on belonging.  Meer

The study of Czechoslovak women refugees in Britain is noticeably missing from current research and Anglo-Czechoslovak historiography. Oral interviews from former refugees and archival research offer insights into women’s diverse experiences, dilemmas and contributions.  Meer

Forced to flee Germany in 1933, the drama critic and journalist Alfred Kerr wrote about the British people with much dry wit and some perplexity in his journal, translated here from the German.  Meer

This book explores the topic of child refugees from Nazism in Britain across a range of subjects. The themes of displacement, children in art, and children in education and play organise the volume, which provides the first study examining the experiences of refugee children in Britain and those who worked with them.  Meer

Founded in Berlin in 1924, the Weintraubs Syncopators were Germany’s most popular jazz band until 1933 until they were foced into exile by the Nazis, eventually finding a new home in Australia.  Meer

Before Nowhere in Africa won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003, the fate of German Jewish exiles in Africa was not widely discussed.  Meer

This book analyzes literary works by North American Jewish and Lithuanian writers through the lenses of postmemory, cultural memory and trauma theory.  Meer

The Kindertransport, a rescue operation during the Second World War, is the subject of this study of memoirs and autobiographical fiction by survivors and recent fiction by authors with no experience of the Kindertransport.  Meer

Offers a social history of refugees escaping Hungary after the Bolshevik-type revolution of 1919, the ensuing counter revolution, and the rise of anti-Semitism.  Meer