Barbed Wire University
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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

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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

About this book

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.

Using memoirs and diaries, some of which have only recently become available in archives, Dave Hannigan pieces together a richly detailed account of what these remarkable men did during their time in captivity. 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.

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Information

Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781493063529
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Prologue
  3. Chapter One: Guests of the Nation
  4. Chapter Two: Windows on the World
  5. Chapter Three: Degenerate Artists
  6. Chapter Four: A Welfare State
  7. Chapter Five: The Spirit of the Camp
  8. Chapter Six: All the News That’s Fit to Print
  9. Chapter Seven: Call Me by My Name
  10. Chapter Eight: Barbed Wire University
  11. Chapter Nine: Technically Speaking, a Spy
  12. Chapter Ten: If Music Be the Food of Love
  13. Chapter Eleven: The Writing on the Wall
  14. Chapter Twelve: The Art of War
  15. Chapter Thirteen: Catch and Release
  16. Select Bibliography
  17. About the Author