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Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. -- .
Trade ReviewThe distinctiveness of this work is indisputable and it sets the standard for a new kind of micro-historical approach to the subject.
Jennifer Craig-Norton, Reviews in History, 01/03/2012
The book is distinguished by the exemplary thoroughness of its research. Williams displays a remarkable knowledge of Manchester Jewry, its communal institutions and organisations, its personalities, places of worship and, not least, internal divisions.
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Table of ContentsPreface
1. Introduction: Jewish refugees in Manchester
2. ‘Speak no evil’: Manchester Jewry and refugees, 1933–37
3. ‘Displaced scholars’: Refugees at the University of Manchester
4. Refugees and Eccles cakes: Refugee industrialists in the Manchester region
5. ‘Something ought to be done’: Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1933-37
6. ‘The forgotten refugees’: Manchester and the Basque children of 1937
7. ‘The work of succouring refugees is going forward’: The Manchester Jewish Refugees Committee 1939–40
8. ‘Serious concern’: The Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1938-40
9. ‘Our remaining comrades in Czechoslovakia: The Manchester branch of the KPD
10. ‘Not because they are Jews’: The Catholic Church in Salford and refugees
11. ‘Inspired idealism’: Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld and Manchester
12. ‘The Harris House girls’: Girls from the kindertransporte in Southport
13. ‘A haven of safety’: Refugees and the Manchester women’s lodge of B’nai Brith
14. ‘Outposts of Jewish Palestine’: Young Zionist refugees in Manchester
15. ‘The most difficult boys to handle’: Refugees at the Stockport hostel, 1939-40
16. ‘By the grace of the almighty’: Refugees and the Manchester yeshiva
17. ‘From slavery and persecution to freedom and kindness’: Refugees at the Manchester Home for the Jewish Aged
18. ‘Bright young refugees’: Refugees and schools in the Manchester region
19. ‘Humanitarianism of the greatest value’: Manchester Rotarians and refugees
20. The saved and the trapped: Refugees and those they left behind
21. ‘The Dutch orphans’: War refugees in Manchester
22. Pacifism and rescue: The case of Lionel Cowan
23. Conclusion: The victims of fascism and the liberal city
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