Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror

Susanne Korbel researches and lectures at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz specializing in Cultural Studies, Migration Studies, and Jewish history.Philipp Strobl is a cultural historian and a lecturer in Contemporary European History in a Global Context at the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany.

• 1. Mediations Through Migrations: An Introduction on Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer Part I: Networks: Family, Friendships, Relations 2. Jakob Rosenfeld: A Viennese Jewish Doctor Discovers Heimat in Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army 3. Knowledge from Five Continents: Escape Destinations in Publications of German-Speaking Political Refugees, 1933–1940 4. Salka Viertel and the Gendered In/Visibility of Cultural Mediation 5. Archives of Imagination: Johanna and Ermanno Loevinson as Cultural Translators Part 2: Strategies of Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer 6. Translating Modernism: Hedy Krilla’s Theater Work Through the Lens of Exile 7. Travelling Knowledge: Refugees from Nazism and Their Impact on Art Music and Musicology in Post-1945 Canada 8. Indecent Bathing Suits and Women Who Smoke: Austrian Refugees as Cultural Mediators in the Transit Country Portugal After 1938 9. Between the Couch and Two Cultures: William Rose, Psychoanalysis, Translation and the Creation of Cultural Capital by Literary Exiles During the Second World War Part 3: Actors of Transfer and Translation 10. "Somehow the Ill Winds of War Have Been Favourable to Me": Travel, Training, and Trauma in the Life and Works of Louis Kahan 11. An Unsung Austrian Doyen: Erwin Felber and the Transference of Cultural and Musical Knowledge in Wartime Shanghai 12. Melitta and Victor Urbancic: Art in Exile in Iceland 13. Ingolf Dahl (1912–1970): Multifaceted Musician – Knowledge and Cultural Transfer Between Central Europe and Los Angeles