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A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration.
Author : Todd M. Endelman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520227200
A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration.
Author : Vivian David Lipman
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
This book is the first scholarly overview of Anglo-Jewish history covering the century and a half following the political emancipation in 1858 of the Jews in Britain, which is often viewed as a critical point in their history. V.D. Lipman studies the process by which the originally small Anglo-Jewish community expanded as a result of the mass immigration from Eastern Europe, assisting with the new immigrants' acculturation and smoothing tensions with the larger British society.
Author : W.D. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131738623X
First published in 1982, this book examines anti-semitism in the Western world. The author concludes that, fringe neo-Nazi groups notwithstanding, significant anti-semitism is largely a left-wing rather than a right-wing phenomenon. He finds that Jews have reacted to this change in their situation and in attitudes towards them by making a shift to the right in most Western countries, with the major exception of the United States. Considering the contribution of Jews to socialist thought from Marx onwards and the equally lengthy history of right-wing anti-semitism, this shift is one of the most significant in Jewish history. This movement to the right is discussed in separate chapters, as is Soviet anti-semitism and the status of the State of Israel. Examined in depth are the implications of this shift in attitude for Jewish philosophy and self-identity.
Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1476613435
This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Contrary to popular history, the Jewish population was not expelled from England in 1290, but rather adopted the public face of Christianity, while continuing to practice Judaism in secret. Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims held the highest offices in the land, including service as archbishops, dukes, earls, kings and queens. Among those proposed to be of Jewish ancestry are the Tudor kings and queens, Queen Elizabeth I, William the Conqueror, and Thomas Cromwell. Documentaton in support of this revisionist history includes DNA studies, genealogies, church records, place names and the Domesday Book.
Author : Bernard Wasserstein
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
An account of British bureaucratic blindness to the Jewish catastrophe in Europe shows that Churchill's efforts in behalf of the Jews were continually thwarted by subordinates.
Author : Geoffrey Alderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198207597
An authoritative and comprehensive history of the Jews of Britain over the last century and a half, this book examines the social structure and economic base of Jewish communities in Victorian England and traces the struggle for emancipation.
Author : David S. Katz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
This text traces the Jewish thread throughout English life between the Tudors and the beginnings of mass immigration in the mid-19th century. The author explores a number of subjects in depth, such as the Jewish advocates of Henry VIII's divorce, and the Jewish conspirators of Elizabethan England.
Author : R. Langham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 2005-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0230511384
For nearly a thousand years there has been a Jewish presence in Britain. Today the Jewish community, although numbering less than 300,000 is widely seen as one of the most successful groups in Britain. This unique book describes events in Britain concerning Jews in chronological order, from ancient legend to the present times.
Author : Louise London
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521534499
Whitehall and the Jews is the most comprehensive study to date of the British response to the plight of European Jewry under Nazism. It contains the definitive account of immigration controls on the admission of refugee Jews, and reveals the doubts and dissent that lay behind British policy. British self-interest consistently limited humanitarian aid to Jews. Refuge was severely restricted during the Holocaust, and little attempt made to save lives, although individual intervention did prompt some admissions on a purely humanitarian basis. After the war, the British government delayed announcing whether refugees would obtain permanent residence, reflecting the government's aim of avoiding long-term responsibility for large numbers of homeless Jews. The balance of state self-interest against humanitarian concern in refugee policy is an abiding theme of Whitehall and the Jews, one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the Holocaust and Britain yet published.
Author : Ben Kasstan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789202280
Minority populations are often regarded as being ‘hard to reach’ and evading state expectations of health protection. This ethnographic and archival study analyses how devout Jews in Britain negotiate healthcare services to preserve the reproduction of culture and continuity. This book demonstrates how the transformative and transgressive possibilities of technology reveal multiple pursuits of protection between this religious minority and the state. Making Bodies Kosher advances theoretical perspectives of immunity, and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and the study of religions.