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University in Exile: The Experience of the Twenty-First Century
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 76, Number 3, Fall 2009
- pp. 849-866
- 10.1353/sor.2009.0035
- Article
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In this article the author reflects on the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the university in exile by the New School for Social Research. It is explained that the effort was founded to aid Jewish scholars who were refugees from the Nazi regime in Germany. The central focus of the article is the author's contention that universities and scholars need to be vigilant in safeguarding academic freedoms in the future. Among other issues the article examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989.