Forced Migration and Scientific Change

The dismissal of civil servants on racist or political grounds in April 1933 marked the beginning of a massive forced exodus of mainly Jewish scholars and scientists from Nazi Germany--a phenomenon unprecedented in the modern history of academic life. The essays in this volume examine whether that exodus of reason led to significant scientific change and if so how that change should be characterized. Written by a multidisciplinary group of German British and American scholars the essays consider the natural and medical sciences psychology pedagogy and psychoanalysis as well as the social sciences.