Refugees at the Margins: Jewish Domestics in Britain 1938–1945.
From shortly after the Anschluss until the beginning of the Second World War, about twenty thousand Jewish refugees were admitted to Britain as live-in domestic servants in British homes. These women (and a few men) comprised about one-third of all Jewish refugees admitted into Britain in the 1930s,...
| Publicado en: | Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 295 - 331 |
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Purdue University Press
Winter2019
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