How Central European émigrés transformed the British twentieth century

Ian Thomson
03 April 2025, The Tablet

Jesus Being Raised from the Dead, sculpture by Frankfurt Jewish artist Hans Feibusch in St Alban’s Church, Holborn, London

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The 100,000 refugees who fled to this country in the 1930s were very careful not to talk about their origins

In The Alienation Effect the writer and journalist Owen Hatherley chronicles the contribution made to British culture by the artists, ­architects, publishers and film-makers who fled to these shores from Central Europe between 1933 and 1940.

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