THE EXILES (1989)

Richard Kaplan, director

Exile is a curious word, for it holds the possibility, at least, of return, as Tom Ambrose aptly wrote in Hitler's Loss: What Britain and America Gained from Europe's Cultural Exiles (2001: Peter Owen Publishers). Yet, of the thousands of Jewish scholars, intellectuals, and artists who fled what became Hitler, Mussolini and Franco's Europe, few had any reason to return when World War II had ended. "The world had seen nothing in modern times like this exodus of intellectuals as Nobel Prize winners were reduced to writing job applications to the USA and eminent artists took posts as domestic servants in London. But these, after all, were the lucky ...

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