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Barbed wire university : the untold story of the interned Jewish intellectuals who turned an island prison into the most remarkable school in the world / Dave Hannigan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hannigan, Dave, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish refugees--Great Britain.
- Jewish refugees.
- Noncitizens.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Isle of Man.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Noncitizens--Isle of Man--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Great Britain.
- Internment camps.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Evacuation of civilians.
- Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man)--History.
- Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man).
- Isle of Man--History--20th century.
- Isle of Man.
- Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 209 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Untold story of the interned Jewish intellectuals who turned an island prison into the most remarkable school in the world
- Place of Publication:
- Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists, and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. These were men who had fled Hitler's Germany, found refuge in Britain, and then, in the hysteria of 1940, were held in captivity as a perceived security threat. They turned the camp-Hutchinson Camp-into a school, concert hall, and artistic community. This is a forgotten corner of World War II, and the way these men constructed a Bohemian idyll in the middle of the Irish Sea, their freedom taken from them, is an extraordinary tale of grit and creativity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Guests of the Nation
- ch. Two Windows on the World
- ch. Three Degenerate Artists
- ch. Four A Welfare State
- ch. Five The Spirit of the Camp
- ch. Six All the News That's Fit to Print
- ch. Seven Call Me by My Name
- ch. Eight Barbed Wire University
- ch. Nine Technically Speaking, a Spy
- ch. Ten If Music Be the Food of Love
- ch. Eleven The Writing on the Wall
- ch. Twelve The Art of War
- ch. Thirteen Catch and Release.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Hannigan, Dave, 1971- Barbed wire university
- ISBN:
- 9781493057702
- 1493057707
- OCLC:
- 1262688104
- Publisher Number:
- 99988888073
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