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Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror: Mediations Through Migrations book cover

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Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror Mediations Through Migrations

Edited By Susanne Korbel, Philipp Strobl Copyright 2022
278 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The book investigates and compares the role of artistic and academic refugees from National Socialism acting as "cultural mediators" or "agents of knowledge" between their origin and host societies. By doing so, it locates itself at the intersection of the recently emerging field of the history of knowledge, transnational history, migration, exile, as well as cultural transfer studies. The case... Read more

1. Mediations Through Migrations: An Introduction on Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer

Philipp Strobl and Susanne Korbel

Part 1: Networks: Family, Friendships, Relations

2. Jakob Rosenfeld: A Viennese Jewish Doctor Discovers Heimat in Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army

Gabriel N. Finder

3. Knowledge from Five Continents: Escape Destinations in Publications of German-Speaking Political Refugees, 1933–1940

Swen Steinberg

4. Salka Viertel and the Gendered In/Visibility of Cultural Mediation

Katharina Prager

5. Archives of Imagination: Johanna and Ermanno Loevinson as Cultural Translators

Asher D. Biemann

Part 2: Strategies of Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer

6. Translating Modernism: Hedy Krilla’s Theater Work Through the Lens of Exile

Christina Wieder

7. Travelling Knowledge: Refugees from Nazism and Their Impact on Art Music and Musicology in Post-1945 Canada

Andrea Strutz

8. Indecent Bathing Suits and Women Who Smoke: Austrian Refugees as Cultural Mediators in the Transit Country Portugal After 1938

Katrin Sippel

9. Between the Couch and Two Cultures: William Rose, Psychoanalysis, Translation and the Creation of Cultural Capital by Literary Exiles During the Second World War

Andrea Meyer Ludowisy

Part 3: Actors of Transfer and Translation

10. "Somehow the Ill Winds of War Have Been Favourable to Me": Travel, Training, and Trauma in the Life and Works of Louis Kahan

Steven Cooke and Anna Hirsh

11. An Unsung Austrian Doyen: Erwin Felber and the Transference of Cultural and Musical Knowledge in Wartime Shanghai

Jeremy Leong

12. Melitta and Victor Urbancic: Art in Exile in Iceland

Markus Helmut Lenhart

13. Ingolf Dahl (1912–1970): Multifaceted Musician – Knowledge and Cultural Transfer Between Central Europe and Los Angeles

Melina Paetzold

Biography

Susanne Korbel researches and lectures at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz specializing in Cultural Studies, Migration Studies, and Jewish history.

Philipp Strobl is a cultural historian and a lecturer in Contemporary European History in a Global Context at the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany.

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