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Book Synopsis«With its meticulous documentation, this multifaceted volume brings a range of individual lives and networks to the fore, outlining their inestimable contributions to British culture. It is an inspiring and timely intervention into the fields of exile and childhood studies, demonstrating just how inextricably the two are linked.»
(Professor Kiera Vaclavik, Director of the Centre for Childhood Cultures, Queen Mary, University of London)
The essays that make up this book cover a diverse range of subjects, all broadly on the theme of child refugees from Nazism in Britain. The book’s three sections – on displacement, children in art, and children in education and play – indicate the various topics considered in the study. The authors come from different academic fields – including German and Austrian exile studies, art history, language and literature, and education – so each chapter offers a depth of research as well as adding to the breadth of the overarching theme. Thus far, there has been no study dedicated to examining both the experience of these refugee children and those who worked with them, and yet they and their own children live on, marked in different ways by their experience and making their own mark in British art and literature too.
Table of ContentsContents: Anna Nyburg: ‘A Piece of Rather Formidable News’: Motherhood in British Exile – Michal Shapira: The Psychoanalyst and Jewish Refugee Kate Friedlander (1902–1949) and Her Contribution to the Study of Children in Britain – Charmian Brinson: ‘In loco parentis?’: The Work of the Refugee Youth Organizations, Young Austria and Free German Youth, in Wartime Britain – Lucy Stone: ‘Michelle comprend le malheur’: Reading Writings by Children Displaced in the Nazi Era – Anthony Grenville: Childhood Trauma as Represented in Literary Works by Jewish Refugees from Nazism in Britain – Monica Bohm- Duchen: Innocence Sullied, Innocence Redeemed: Images of Childhood in the Work of Emigre Artists in the UK after 1933 – Julia Winckler: That Baby: Wolf Suschitzky’s and Liselotte Frankl’s Pioneering Children’s Photo Story Book – Ines Schlenker: Foreign Inspirations: Children’s Book Illustrations by Émigré Artists – Rachel Dickson: From Berlin to the Bodley Head: Renate Meyer (1930–2014): The Rediscovery of a Neglected Children’s Book Author, Illustrator and Artist – Elizabeth Lamle: Intergenerational Perspectives on Migration in the 1930s: The Letters of Lucian and Lucie Freud – Rolf Laven: A Pioneer of Children’s Art Pedagogy: Franz Čižek and His Influence in the English- Speaking World – Sian Roberts: Hilde Jarecki, Social Pedagogy and the Transformation of Society through Early Years Learning.
