Nearly the new world : the British West Indies and the flight from Nazism, 1933-1945 / Joanna Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, Joanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--West Indies, British--History--20th century.

Jews.

Jewish refugees--West Indies, British--History--20th century.

Jewish refugees.

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--West Indies, British.

World War, 1939-1945.

Immigrants--West Indies, British--History--20th century.

Immigrants.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 307 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

"In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of the war. At the same time, it gives an unsparing account of the xenophobia and bureaucratic infighting that nearly prevented their rescue-and that helped to seal the fate of countless other European Jews for whom escape was never an option"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The contextual drivers : the British West Indies, the colonial office and Jewish refugee organizations

Jews seeking refuge, 1933-1938

Panic migration : the British West Indies and the refugee crisis of 1938-39

Boat people

Internment, camps and missed opportunities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-296) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Newman, Joanna. Nearly the new world.

ISBN:

9781789203332

1789203333

9781789206494

1789206499

OCLC:

1085699461

Publisher Number:

40029483801