1st Edition
Jewish Refugees and the International Community between the Two World Wars Beyond the State
Introduction
Section I: The Great War and its Aftermath
1. Eastern European Jewry Between War and Revolution
2. Refugees in East-Central Europe at the End of the Conflict
3. The International Response: The Nansen Years
Section II: The Flight from Nazi Germany
4. From Lviv to Nuremberg: Antisemitism as a European Problem
5. Against Nazism: The McDonald Years
6. Nobody Wants Them!: The Conference of Evian (1938)
Section III: Emigration
7. Jewish Emigration Before and After World War I
8. The International Dynamics of Jewish Migration
Statistic Appendix
Section IV: A New International System
9. What is a Refugee?: A New Legal Category
10. Non-Governmental Organisations, Solidarity, and International Cooperation
11. Refugees and Human Rights
Conclusion
Biography
Giuseppe Motta is Associate Professor of the History of International Relations at La Sapienza University in Rome. His research focuses on the history of minorities, ethnic conflicts, and human rights during the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on East-Central Europe. Among his other publications are Less than Nations: Central-Eastern European Minorities after WWI, 2 vols. (2013); The Great War against Eastern European Jewry, 1914-1920, (2017); and La comunità internazionale e i rifugiati ebraici fra le due guerre mondiali (2022).
