Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables xiii
4. Preface xvii
5. Chapter 1. The Terms “German-Speaking Mathematician,” “Forced,” and “Voluntary Emigration” 1
6. Chapter 2. The Notion of “Mathematician” Plus Quantitative Figures on Persecution 13
7. Chapter 3. Early Emigration 30
8. Chapter 4. Pretexts, Forms, and the Extent of Emigration and Persecution 59
9. Chapter 5. Obstacles to Emigration out of Germany after 1933, Failed Escape, and Death 90
10. Chapter 6. Alternative (Non-American) Host Countries 102
11. Chapter 7. Diminishing Ties with Germany and Self-Image of the Refugees 149
12. Chapter 8. The American Reaction to Immigration: Help and Xenophobia 186
13. Chapter 9. Acculturation, Political Adaptation, and the American Entrance into the War 230
14. Chapter 10. The Impact of Immigration on American Mathematics 267
15. Chapter 11. Epilogue: The Postwar Relationship of German and American Mathematicians 319
16. Appendix 1: Lists of Emigrated (after 1933), Murdered, and Otherwise Persecuted German-Speaking Mathematicians (as of 2008) 341
17. Appendix 2: Excerpt from a Letter by George David Birkhoff from Paris (1928) to His Colleague-Mathematicians at Harvard Concerning the Possibility of or Desirability to Hire Foreigners 366
18. Appendix 3.1: Report Compiled by Harald Bohr “Together with Different German Friends” in May 1933 Concerning the Present Conditions in German Universities, in Particular with Regard to Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 368
19. Appendix 3.2: Translation of a Letter from Professor Karl Löwner of the University of Prague to Professor Louis L. Silverman (Dartmouth College) Dated August 2, 1933 372
20. Appendix 3.3: Richard von Mises’s “Position toward the Events of Our Time” in November 1933 374
21. Appendix 3.4: Report by Artur Rosenthal (Heidelberg) from June 1935 on the Boycott of His and Heinrich Liebmann’s Mathematical Courses 376
22. Appendix 3.5: Max Pinl–Later the Author of Pioneering Reports (1969–72) on Mathematical Refugees – in a Letter to Hermann Weyl on the Situation in Czechoslovakia Immediately after the Munich Dictate of September 29, 1938 378
23. Appendix 4.1: A Letter by Emmy Noether of January 1935 to the Emergency Committee in New York Regarding Her Scientific and Political Interests during Emigration 380
24. Appendix 4.2: Richard Courant’s Resignation from the German Mathematicians’ Association DMV in 1935 381
25. Appendix 4.3: Von Mises in His Diary about His Second Emigration, from Turkey to the USA, in 1939 383
26. Appendix 4.4: Hermann Weyl to Harlow Shapley on June 5, 1943, Concerning the Problems of the Immigrant from Göttingen, Felix Bernstein 388
27. Appendix 5.1: Richard Courant in October 1945 to the American Authorities Who Were Responsible for German Scientific Reparation 390
28. Appendix 5.2: Max Dehn’s Refusal to Rejoin the German Mathematicians’ Association DMV in 1948 393
29. Appendix 6: Memoirs for My Children (1933/1988) by Peter Thullen 394
30. References 421
31. Photographs Index and Credits 445
32. Subject Index 449
33. Name Index 461