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Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-579) and index. xi, 605 pages ; 24 cm.

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Describes the restrictive policies of France, Spain, and Portugal regarding asylum for refugees from Nazi political and racial persecution, and the organizations that cared for the refugees and helped to smuggle them across the frontiers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index. 223 pages ; 24 cm.

"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-389) and index. 396 pages ; 24 cm.

This article explores the response of the Northern Ireland government to the Jewish refugee crisis during the years preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. The author examines the government's treatment of asylum seekers, and in particular its attempts to attract refugee businessmen who might contribute to solving Ulster's chronic unemployment and economic blight.

Describes the internment camp in Les Milles in the south of France, based on testimonies of survivors (or their families) and archival material. Set up in September 1939, it served at first as a military camp. After 1940 it was a camp for foreigners who sought asylum in France, including Jews. Between 3 August-10 September 1942 it served as a transit camp for Jews sent to Auschwitz via Drancy. Includes ...

A revised version of two courses of lectures delivered as part of the Broadcast University series of Israel Army Radio. Discusses the struggle of Jews for survival under Nazi rule, and attempts at aid and rescue by Jews in the Western democracies and Palestine, by foreign governments, and by "Righteous Gentiles". Emphasizes that the Nazis decided to murder all the Jews only in autumn 1940; until then ...

During the period 1933-38, ca. 10,000 refugees entered Belgium from Germany, most of them Jews. 5,000 of them were granted political asylum in other countries. Less than 1,000 were officially accepted in Belgium. From the spring of 1938, following the Anschluss in Austria, until the summer of 1939, ca. 24,000 more Jewish refugees entered Belgium from Germany, among them 250 from the ship "St. Louis". ...

A study of immigration to France, emigration to the colonies, and the evolution of the right of asylum. Examines French public discourse on the subject and stereotypes attached to immigrants since the 19th century as a background to the development of antisemitism and racism. Ch. 4 (pp. 207-286), "L'affaire Dreyfus et la stigmatisation des origines", deals with Édouard Drumont's "La France juive" and ...