Muses Flee Hitler: Cultural Transfer and Adaptation

Among the several hundred jews and non-Jews who fled Germany and Nazi-occupied lands during the Third Reich were some of the very goodst minds of the twentieth century.A wide range of disciplines - social sciences, literature, chemistry, mathematics, architecture - are covered by the twenty contributors to The Muses Flee Hitler. Based on two Smithsonian colloquia held in 1980 to celebrate Einstein's birth, this volume incorporates research and archive material never published before, in in a major study of this intellectual emigration.Though the refugee experience was emotionally disastrous for many, The Muses Flee Hitler remains, for the most part, a profound celebration of the emigres adap.