Conclusions

Abstract

This study has been concerned with the problem of assimilation and integration of German-Jewish Refugees from Nazism who came to England in the 1930s. It was a three-generational study which also included younger Jews who were born in this country to refugee-parents. It is for the first time that this group has been examined in any great detail and that the life-experiences and perceptions of German Jews in England have been recorded. The empirical material on which the study has been based and which has been presented in previous chapters may therefore be considered as significant in itself. I have pointed to the implications of this material as I went along, and no attempt is made here to summarize the many facets of these life-experiences yet again. However, the chapters raise a number of fundamental questions relating to the position of ethnic minorities in general and Jews in particular in western plural societies which it is worth picking up at this point because they would appear to merit further research.