Papers Session: Quakers, the Holocaust, and the Cold War
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
This paper presents a survey of some of the narratives that have been told about Quaker efforts to offer assistance to refugees from Nazi Europe. It argues that many of those narratives are startlingly unsophisticated. The paper will focuses in large part on particular on a novel--Christopher Isherwood's The World In Evening--that presents a more nuanced--and therefore more compelling--portrait of Quakers who tried to assist people who were fleeing Nazi Europe.