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A History of the Jews in Britain since 1858 » Read Now
by V. D. Lipman. 276 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...history of the Jews in Britain since 1858/ V.D...2 cloth 1. Jews-- Great Britain--History...Victorians were great organizers of charity and Britains position in the world...
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The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society » Read Now
by Todd M. Endelman. 370 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Modern British Jewry » Read Now
by Geoffrey Alderman. 434 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Jews of Britain over the last century and a half. Geoffrey Alderman examines the social structure and economic base of Jewish communities in Victorian England and traces the struggle for emancipation. He analyses the effects of the...
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This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Jews of Britain over the last century and a half. Geoffrey Alderman examines the social structure and economic base of Jewish communities in Victorian England and traces the struggle for emancipation. He analyses the effects of the large-scale immigration of the early twentieth century and charts the development of the Zionist movement in Britain. Professor Alderman takes his account up to the present day, exploring the concerns and self-image of contemporary Jewish communities in Britain and their place in an increasingly pluralist society. Based on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Modern British Jewry is a political, social, and intellectual history of British Jews which is critical, scholarly, and immensely readable. For this paperback edition Professor Alderman has added a new chapter examining contemporary themes and issues. REVIEWS `This is the definitive history of modern British Jewry. As such it deserves a wide reading', Choice `Written in a lively, engaging manner . . . it includes the first substantial treatment of events and trends in the interwar period and the half-century since World War II', American Historical Review `should appeal to a wide audience at different levels . . . it deserves the attention of most scholars and a space on most college library shelves', History `an important synthetic history of British Jewry . . . Alderman is a leader among the group of scholars who are now scrutinizing the experience of British Jews in the post-1945 era', Albion `an engrossing book, lucidly written, scrupulously annotated', New Statesman and Society `Alderman is an extraordinarily intelligent, thorough and original historian and an excellent writer', Australian Jewish News `More than a standard work, this is an exceptional work, a classic of its genre. Filled equally with drama and information, it puts the Jews firmly into the mainstream of British history', Times Higher Education Supplement `Professor Geoffrey Alderman writes with authority, his industry is impressive, his research is wide-ranging and thorough. He makes some startling revelations . . . Serious students of Jewish history will have serious arguments with it; but they will treasure it for its wealth of detail, its candour, and the light it throws on obscure corners of Jewish life' Jewish Chronicle `the first honest, scholarly study of modern Anglo-Jewry.' Simon Denison, Sunday Telegraph `highly readable ... His analysis of the 19th-century Jewish party affiliations is fascinating.' The Times `a detailed account of Jewish communal activities and quarrels.' Martin Gilbert, The Guardian 'Professor Alderman has resolved to 'expose the new reality' of Jewish history 'warts and all'' The Spectator 'This is by far the best book on its subject - immensely informed, thoroughly researched, supremely accurate, intelligently organized, and, in its discussion of communal rifts, admirably free of partisan bias. Alderman's book is refreshingly iconoclastic in its rejection of an old style of communal history ... briskly unapologetic work.' Times Literary Supplement
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Anti-Semitism in British Society, 1876-1939 » Read Now
by Colin Holmes. 327 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Great Britain. 2. Jews in Great Britain-Public opinion...O-8419-0459-6 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN Contents...measures against Jews 89 7...with a community in Great Britain of...
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Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" & English National Identity » Read Now
by Michael Ragussis. 344 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...especially in Great Britain, the conversion of the Jews has become...the public in the project...missions to the Jews, ends...desired that Great Britain, which, on...the...
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Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London, 1880-1914: Enterprise and Culture » Read Now
by Andrew Godley. 183 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The controversy over culture and British 20th century economic performance has raged for many decades. Now, through selecting a control population, the link between British and American cultural values and entrepreneurship is finally unearthed. Using new evidence of Jewish immigration, mobility, and...
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The controversy over culture and British 20th century economic performance has raged for many decades. Now, through selecting a control population, the link between British and American cultural values and entrepreneurship is finally unearthed. Using new evidence of Jewish immigration, mobility, and assimilation, Andrew Godley shows that despite similar backgrounds and opportunities, the Jews in London were far less entrepreneurial, preferring to remain as workers. However, in America Jews moved en masse into self-employment creating an innovative, dynamic economy while Britain remained stagnant and conservative.
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East Side/East End: Eastern European Jews in London and New York, 1870-1920 » Read Now
by Selma Berrol. 164 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This book is a comparative study of similar people in different environments at the same point in time. The six chapters discuss why eastern European Jews came to London and New York, the differences and similarities in the settlement process, the schools they found and the use they made of them...
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This book is a comparative study of similar people in different environments at the same point in time. The six chapters discuss why eastern European Jews came to London and New York, the differences and similarities in the settlement process, the schools they found and the use they made of them, and the mobility they achieved. The study concludes that individual and societal conditions made it impossible for more than a small proportion of the generation that grew to maturity before the first world war to use schooling as a road to the middle class. In general, the Russian and Polish Jews who came to New York reached the middle class sooner than those who remained in London and thus can be said to have made the better choice.
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Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, c. 1850-1914 » Read Now
by Rainer Liedtke. 266 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The analysis of this important sphere of everyday life highlights the relevance of comparative history for an understanding of Jewish integration and identity formation in nineteenth-century Europe.
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Abraham's Heirs: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe » Read Now
by Leonard B. Glick. 324 pgs.

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Leonard B. Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in medieval western Europe from the fifth to fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians during this vital formative period.
He demonstrates that Ashkenazic Jewish culture was profoundly shaped and...
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Leonard B. Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in medieval western Europe from the fifth to fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians during this vital formative period.
He demonstrates that Ashkenazic Jewish culture was profoundly shaped and conditioned by life in an overwhelmingly Christian society. Drawing on diverse Christian documents, he portrays Christian beliefs about medieval Jews and Judaism with a degree of detail seldom found in Jewish histories.
Emphasizing social, political, and economic history, but also discussing religious topics, Glick describes the evolution of a complex, inherently unequal relationship.
Because the Ashkenazic Jews of medieval Europe were ancestral to almost the entire Jewish population of eastern Europe, their historical experience played a major role in the heritage of most Jewish Americans.
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The Jews of South-West England: The Rise and Decline of Their Medieval and Modern Communities » Read Now
by Bernard Susser. 362 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Religious Change in Europe, 1650-1914: Essays for John McManners (Chap. 14 "The Office of Chief Rabbi: A Very English Institution") » Read Now
by Nigel Aston. 454 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This collection ranges across Europe to discuss the nature of religious change over more than two centuries. Contributors include Robin Briggs, Derek Beales, Owen Chadwick, and William Doyle.
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John Foxe and the Jews, in Renaissance Quarterly » Read Now
by Sharon Achinstein. 35 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...includes "these great victoryes...Protestants and Jews: "The cruell...against Rome in Eicasmi with...early modern Britain. First there...Messiah, the Jews commit an error...
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The Jew in the Literature of England to the End of the 19th Century (1939) » Read Now
by Montagu Frank Modder. 434 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...audience is made to see that, in a great measure, the Jews behavior is due to his treatment...trading interests of the nation. In 1714, another work, entitled Reasons for...
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Anglo-Jew or English/British? Some Dilemmas of Anglo-Jewish History, in Jewish Social Studies » Read Now
by Peter Stansky. 20 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...but his great scholarly work on Britain in the eighteenth...to do with Jews. Nevertheless...Sussex to the Great Synagogue in 1809. As...points out, Jews did not move...to...
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Dickensian Disciple: Anglo-Jewish Identity in the Christmas Tales of Benjamin Farjeon, in Philological Quarterly » Read Now
by Michelle Persell. 18 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...admonition that "our Great Creator formed...reinterpreted the holiday in terms of an urban...market-economy Christmas in Britain could be seen as...interests of Englands...
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History of the Jews, Vol. 5 (Chap. 2 "Settlement of the Jews in England and Manasseh Ben Israel") » Read Now
by Heinrich Graetz. 770 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Talmudical and Rabbinical laws. The great number of Jews in Poland, and their fondness...the Inquisition, he attached great importance to the Jews. In another work on "The...