The Muses flee Hitler : cultural transfer and adaptation, 1930-1945

[1.] Background and migration: Anti-intellectualism and the cultural decapitation of Germany under the Nazis / Alan Beyerchen -- The movement of people in a time of crisis / Herbert A. Strauss -- American refugee policy in historical perspective / Roger Daniels -- "Wanted by the Gestapo: saved by America" -Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee / Cynthia Jaffee McCabe -- [2.] The muses in America: Adaptation and influence: German émigrés in southern California / Jarrell C. Jackman ; Social theory in a new context / H. Stuart Hughes -- Transplanting the arts: European writers in exile / Alfred Kazin ; The music world in migration / Boris Schwarz ; American skyscrapers and Weimar modern: transactions between fact and idea / Christian F. Otto -- Interaction of cultures: the sciences: The migration of physicists to the United States / Gerald Holton ; Immigrants in American chemistry / P. Thomas Carroll ; Refugee mathematicians in the United States, 1933-1941: reception and reaction / Nathan Reingold -- [3.] Cultural adaptation in worldwide perspective: The role of Switzerland for the refugees / Helmut F. Pfanner -- Intellectual émigrés in Britain, 1933-1939 / Bernard Wasserstein -- Canada and the refugee intellectual, 1933-1939 / Irving Abella and Harold Troper -- Muses behind barbed wire: Canada and the interned refugees / Paula Jean Draper -- Shanghai chronicle: Nazi refugees in China / Renata Berg-Pan -- The reception of the muses in the circum-Caribbean / Judith Laikin Elkin -- Das andere Deutschland: the anti-fascist exile network in southern South America / Ronald C. Newton. Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) and index. 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm