Roads Less Traveled : German-Jewish Exile Experiences in Kenya, 1933–1947
Before Nowhere in Africa won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002, the fate of German-Jewish exiles in Africa was not widely discussed. The film, based on the autobiographical work of Stefanie Zweig, tells the story of the Zweig family, who escaped the perils of Nazism and found...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers,
2019
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| Ausgabe: | 1st, New ed |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Exile Studies
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| Schlagworte: | Jews, German Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish refugees Kenia Exil Deutsche Juden Geschichte 1933-1947 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (222 p) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Before Nowhere in Africa won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002, the fate of German-Jewish exiles in Africa was not widely discussed. The film, based on the autobiographical work of Stefanie Zweig, tells the story of the Zweig family, who escaped the perils of Nazism and found refuge in the British colony of Kenya. Taking Zweig’s written works Nowhere in Africa and Nirgendwo war Heimat: Mein Leben auf zwei Kontinenten [Nowhere was Home: My Life on Two Continents] as a point of departure, and drawing on extensive sources – including previously unexplored government files from the Colonial Office and other archival records, correspondence, first-person accounts and personal communication with former refugees – this book provides a detailed historical look at German- Jewish emigration to Kenya. The volume explores British immigration policies and the formation of the Plough Settlement Association, under whose auspices German-Jewish refugees were to be settled in Kenya as farmers. It also traces the difficult lives of refugees, both adults and children, within the complex dynamics of British colonial society in the Kenya of the 1930s and 1940s, paying special attention to the experiences of children in the colony CONTENTS: Kenya? Historical Background of Jewish Emigration to Kenya 1903–1939 – Safe Haven in Kenya: First-Person Accounts – Refugees’ Status in Kenya Colony – Experiences of Refugee Children in Colonial Kenya. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (222 p) 7 ill |
| ISBN: | 9781789975383 1789975387 9781789975376 1789975379 |
| DOI: | 10.3726/b15903 |