Refuge in Research: Walter Ruben’s Exile and Internment in Turkey
Nazan Maksudyan
Abstract: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 durin… Show more
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