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Name
  
John Conway


Role
  
Author

Education
  
St John's College, Cambridge

Books
  
The Nazi Persecution of the Churches 1933-45

John S. Conway (1929-2017) was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of British Columbia. He specialized in the role of the German churches and the Vatican during the Third Reich, and on Christian-Jewish relations during the 20th century. He was the founding member of the Scholars' Conference on the German Church and the Holocaust, and was the author of The Nazi Persecution of the Churches 1933-45. He was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.

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Background

Conway was born in London, England, and completed his B.A. and Ph.D in history at St John's College, Cambridge. He moved to Canada in 1955 and taught international relations at the University of Manitoba until 1957, when he joined the history department at the University of British Columbia, teaching modern European history and international relations there until 1995.

He was appointed the Smallman Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario in 1998.

He was a member of the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster's Refugee Liaison Committee. On the UBC campus, he had been long associated with the Student Christian Movement, and the World University Service, for which he acted for many years as the Faculty Advisor. He was a member of St James' Anglican Parish, Vancouver. Dr. Conway was also the editor of the Newsletter of the Association of Contemporary Church Historians.

Books

  • Conway, J. S. The Nazi persecution of the Churches 1933-45. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968. xxxi, 474 p. : 8 plates, illus., ports. ; 23 cm. ISBN 0-297-76315-6
  • Also published: New York : Basic Books, [1968]
  • Also published: Toronto : Ryerson Press, [1968].
  • Also published: Vancouver : Regent College Pub., 2001, c1968. ISBN 1-55361-031-8
  • Published in French translation (La persécution nazie des Églises, 1933-1945) by Éditions France-Empire, [c1969]
  • Published in German translation (Die nationalsozialistische Kirchenpolitik 1933-1945 : ihre Ziele, Widersprüche und Fehlschläge. München : Chr. Kaiser, [c1969] 383 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Conway, J. S. (John Segmour). Visit to the Tibetan settlements in northern India, 1977. [New Westminster, B.C.] : Institute of Environmental Studies, Douglas College, 1977. 16 leaves ; 28 cm. International project booklet 0703-8976 no. 7
  • Conway, J. S. Bourgeois German pacifism during the First World War [Canada : s.n., 1978?] [20] leaves ; 29 cm. Papers of the Canadian Historical Association
  • References

    John S. Conway (historian) Wikipedia