Refugee Scholars Research Articles

On the Migration of Sociological Structures, 1933-1941: A forgotten episode in the history of American Sociology and a case study in the Sociology of Sociology

An unexamined problem in the history of American sociology is how to understand cross-societal transference of theoretical structures. The case study considered here is that of the cultural migration of refugee scholars from Nazi Germany to the United States. This paper treats this event as a problem in the sociology of theory structures. Habermas' work on the social character of scientific knowledge aids in conceptualizing our frame work.

THE REFUGEE SCHOLARS OF THE 1930s

THE REFUGEE SCHOLARS OF THE 1930s

The Rescue And Achievement Of Refugee Scholars: The Story of Displaced Scholars and Scientists 1933–1952

The Rescue And Achievement Of Refugee Scholars: The Story of Displaced Scholars and Scientists 1933–1952 Get access The Rescue And Achievement Of Refugee Scholars: The Story of Displaced Scholars and Scientists 1933–1952. By Norman Bentwich. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff, 1953. xvi+107 pp. (Studies in Social Life, 1. Ed. by Gunther Beyer and Julius Isaac.) 934′​′×612′​′⁠. Glds.6.25. Bertha L. Bracey Bertha L. Bracey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 30, Issue 4, October 1954, Pages 540–541, https://doi.org/10.2307/2608843 Published: 01 October 1954

The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars

The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars

The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars. The Story of Displaced Scholars and Scientists 1933-1952

I. Crisis in the German Universities 1933.- II. First Efforts of Rescue: 1933-1938.- III. Growth of the Problem 1938-45.- IV. Group Rescue.- a. The Warburg Institute, London.- b. The New School of Social Research, New York.- c. Institutes of Advanced Studies, Princeton and Dublin.- d. Turkish Universities.- e. Palestine.- V. War-Time and Post-War Rescue in Europe.- VI. The War Contribution in England.- VII. The Peace Contribution in England.- Epilogue.- Appendix a. Refugee Fellows of the Royal Society.- b. Refugee Fellows of the British Academy.- c. Professors in British Universities.- Index of Names.

The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars. The Story of Displaced Scholars and Scientists 1933-1952

The Rescue and Achievement of Refugee Scholars. The Story of Displaced Scholars and Scientists 1933-1952

Refugee Scientific Workers and other Scholars

AN appeal over Lord Rutherford's name appeared on March 18 for support for the formation of a Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, to act as a permanent successor to the Academic Assistance Council. In the past three years, the Council has given extremely valuable assistance to university teachers displaced in Germany for political or ‘racial’ reasons, and has also been able to help refugee scholars from other countries. Of the 700 German refugee scholars, 363 are already permanently reestablished, and a further 324 are still being temporarily maintained as research guests. Recent developments in Germany, especially since the publication of the Nuremburg legislation, have convinced Lord Rutherford that there is a continuing need for an assistance organisation, and the Council can no longer regard its work as purely of a temporary emergency character. Membership of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, which will take over the duties of the Council, is open to all who pay an annual subscription of a guinea or more, or covenant for a seven-year contribution, or make a capital donation or bequest. Lord Rutherford hopes that the Society will build up an ‘academic assistance fund’ from which research fellowships and studentships can be awarded to scholars displaced from any country on grounds of race, religion or political opinion. This fund will be administered under the auspices of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the president of the Royal Society, the president of the British Academy, Lord Horder, Lord Rutherford and the Hon. R. H. Brand. We hope that Lord Rutherford's appeal will meet with a generous response. It would be a magnificent demonstration of the widespread desire to defend the freedom of learning if the new Society had a large membership drawn from outside as well as from within the academic world. Contributions should be sent to Lord Rutherford of Nelson, O.M., F.R.S., President, Academic Assistance Council, 12 Clement's Inn Passage, Clare Market, W.C.2, made payable to the “Academic Assistance Council”.

Help for Refugee Scholars

Help for Refugee Scholars

Refugee Scholars

A PAMPHLET entitled “A Crisis in the LTniversity World“issued last week by the High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany (obtainable free of charge from the General Secretary, Academic Assistance Council, Rooms of the Royal Society, Burlington House, W.I) gives an account of the assistance to displaced German scholars and men of science during the past two years. Approximately 650 of the university teachers dismissed have left Germany. Of these, 248 have been permanently re-established, 131 in Europe and 117 outside Europe; 366 others have been given temporary assistance which has enabled them to continue their studies in universities or other institutions. Most of this work of academic assistance has been carried out by special emergency committees in Europe and the United States, which have succeeded in raising a quarter of a million pounds for the purpose of creating special positions in universities and research centres for the refugee scholars. Nearly £69,000 has been specially raised in Great Britain for the assistance of the refugee scholars. 40 have been permanently re-established and 170 have been given temporary hospitality. In addition, the Academic Assistance Council has been recognised as the international information centre by the High Commission for Refugees. The pamphlet outlines the plans of the academic committees for the future; it states that a constructive solution of the problem is possible and that the task undertaken by the committees is manageable, provided that there is sufficient financial support.