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Davis, Angela (2017) Belonging and ‘unbelonging’ : Jewish refugee and survivor women in 1950s Britain. Women's History Review, 26 (1). pp. 130-146. doi:10.1080/09612025.2015.1123028 ISSN 0961-2025.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2015.1123028
Abstract
This article analyses the life stories of female Jewish refugees and survivors in 1950s Britain in order to explore their relationship with the existing Jewish community and wider society. The paper is based on an analysis of twenty-one oral history testimonies from the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust collection held at the British library. Around 50,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe came to Britain in the 1930s after fleeing from Hitler. In addition, a relatively small number of camp survivors and former hidden children settled in the country after the war; the Board of Deputies of British Jews Demographic Unit estimates the figure at 2000. This article considers how these refugee and survivor women tried to find a place for themselves within 1950s Britain. Looking at their experiences of arrival, work and home, it reflects upon the discrimination and hostility they faced, and they ways they tried to deal with this. Finally it discusses what this meant for their sense of belonging or ‘unbelonging’.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Jewish refugees -- Great Britain, Holocaust survivors -- Great Britain, Jewish women -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Women's History Review | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0961-2025 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 130-146 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/09612025.2015.1123028 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 June 2016 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 October 2017 | ||||||||
| Funder: | Wellcome Trust (London, England) | ||||||||
| Grant number: | WT098926MA (WT) |
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