Die Remigration: Impulse aus dem Türkei-Exil für die junge Bundesrepublik

Widmann, H.

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“…In those years, Germany and Turkey were working together under an agreement on helping the young (Turkish) republic on rebuilding new government structures and forming the University in Istanbul and a new University in Ankara (4). Through this programme, in which Germans without Jewish roots could work as well, national-socialists let high-profiled German-Jewish scientists seek exile in Turkey (3,8). (3)(4)(5)(6).…”

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The German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein (1891-1950) exiled to Turkey: Pioneering modern paediatric care and social hygiene (health sciences) during World War II

Heinzelmann¹

2023

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During the thirties of the twentieth century, German medical doctors immigrated to Turkey. Among them, was the German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein. In this short biography, the richness of the literature, written by or about Eckstein, will be presented, and altogether combined. Starting from 1937 and further on, Albert Eckstein undertook scientific surveys on children’s state of health and health care in the most remote areas of Anatolia. The value of the social-hygienic approach could be recognized, even in this early stage, starting with epidemiological analysis and followed by basic comprehensive health care. Social hygiene, as a young branch of health sciences at the time, was in the position even then to model the health care system for large population groups, at least in countries actively developing health care, as was Turkey of that time. Albert Eckstein and his co-workers, such as Ihsan Dogramaci, stand out as founders of the modern Turkish health care system today and health sciences in this country.

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The German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein (1891-1950) exiled to Turkey: Pioneering modern paediatric care and social hygiene (health sciences) during World War II

Heinzelmann¹

2023

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“…The topics of Turkey as 'a country of exile' for scholars escaping Nazi persecution and the extent and significance of the accompanying 'knowledge transfer' have attracted considerable scholarly attention (Cremer and Przytulla 1991;Bozay 2001;Kubaseck and Seufert 2008;Dogramaci 2008aDogramaci , 2013Guttstadt 2013;Konuk 2010). The earliest academic work on the subject, Horst Widmann's Exil und Bildungshilfe (Exile and Educational Aid) had a considerable impact on future scholarship in terms of expressing praise for the modernist reforms of Atatürk and the hospitality provided to "German-speaking" (deutschsprachige) academics (Widmann 1973). 4 Moreover, a number of memoirs of émigré academics present a very rosy picture of Turkey as a country of exile, exalting the role of the then modernizing country in saving scholars and scientific inquiry (Neumark 1980;Hirsch 1982).…”

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Refuge in Research: Walter Ruben’s Exile and Internment in Turkey

Maksudyan

2024

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This paper follows the plight of Walter Ruben , an Indologist who had begun his career in Frankfurt am Main and later became one of the leading Indologists of the German Democratic Republic. In mid-1930s, he escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in Turkey. Relying on archival research in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the Prime Ministry's Republican Archives (BCA) in Istanbul, the Turkish press, and oral historical sources, together with the publications of Ruben during his Ankara years, I bring to light Ruben's life trajectory during his exile and internment with a balanced analysis of his 'production of knowledge' as a scholar at risk. The scholarly pressure and difficulties Ruben faced as an endangered scholar hired by a single-party authoritarian state delineate the precariousness and vulnerabilities of life as an exile academic. His original research and writing during his forced internment in Kırşehir, on the other hand, marks another dimension of his exile years, namely his endless effort to look for a real refuge within his intellectual production. 1 This research was completed thanks to a line of funding from the Einstein Stiftung supporting academic freedoms. I would also like to thank Prof. Oliver Janz for hosting me as an Einstein Guest Professor at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute at FU Berlin and providing me with the opportunity to present an earlier version of this paper in his colloquium. Last but not the least, I am truly grateful to Lara Wankel for her diligent work as a research assistant, helping me bring together a range of scattered sources. My research stay between 2016 and 2018 at the ZMO, where I was part of "The Trajectories of Lives and Knowledge" group, had a crucial impact on the conception of this research agenda. In May 2018, I organized a conceptual PV together with Heike Liebau on "Exile and knowledge: practices, modes, aims and conditions of knowledge production in situations of exile." Later that year, I applied for the Einstein Stiftung's guest professorship program with a project on transnational academic connections between Germany and Turkey in the 1930s and 40s.

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Die Remigration: Impulse aus dem Türkei-Exil für die junge Bundesrepublik

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The German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein (1891-1950) exiled to Turkey: Pioneering modern paediatric care and social hygiene (health sciences) during World War II

The German-Jewish paediatrician Albert Eckstein (1891-1950) exiled to Turkey: Pioneering modern paediatric care and social hygiene (health sciences) during World War II

Refuge in Research: Walter Ruben’s Exile and Internment in Turkey

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