Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Tag: interwar period

In 1924, a private gymnasium opened its gates, welcoming children of Russian exiles to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The founder of the school, Varvara Pavlova Kuzmina, a teacher from St. Petersburg, had settled in […]

Shared Spaces of Knowledge: Russian Exiles and the V. P. Kuzmina Gymnasium in Interwar Bulgaria

Charis Marantzidou

Irawati Karve earned her doctorate in interwar Berlin before returning to India, where she pursued a career in anthropology. Discussing her work is difficult because she both rejected and adopted claims from the now infamous Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics.

The Contradictions of Irawati Karve: A Conversation

Thiago Pinto Barbosa
Urmilla Deshpande

During the interwar period and much of World War II, the Parisian café Le Bosphore served as a focal point of sociability and knowledge exchange for Sephardi Jews from the former Ottoman Empire.

Cafés as Sites of Migrant Knowledge Exchange: The Case of Ottoman Jews in Interwar Paris

Using the example of Max Vasmer's biography, the authors argue that "Slavic Studies in general and in German-speaking countries in particular can and should be studied from the perspective of migrant knowledge."

Slavic Studies as Migrant Knowledge: The Case of Max Vasmer

Vladislava Maria Warditz
Wim Coudenys

A new monograph by Machteld Venken is now available: 'Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe.' Published by Berghahn Books, the work is open access.

New Book from the Network: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

The author looks at the relationship between two famous early sociological community studies, "Middletown" and "Marienthal." The latter became Paul Lazarsfeld's "ticket out of Europe just as the continent was descending into fascism."

Drifting Along: Unemployment and Interwar Social Research, from Marienthal to Muncie

Joseph Malherek

Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there.

European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism

Abstracts seven posts about migration and knowledge that were published at the History of Knowledge blog in the past two years.

Linking Migration and Knowledge: Seven Viewpoints at ‘History of Knowledge’

Mark R. Stoneman