Author: Ruth Fredman Cernea
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739116470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Before the Second World War, two golden 'promised lands' beckoned the thousands of Baghdadi Jews who lived in Southeast Asia: the British Empire, on which 'the sun never set, ' and the promised land of their religious tradition, Jerusalem. Almost Englishmen studies the less well-known of these destinations. The book combines history and cultural studies to look into a significant yet relatively unknown period, analyzing to full effect the way Anglo culture transformed the immigrant Bagdhadi Jews. England's influence was pervasive and persuasive: like other minorities in the complex society that was British India, the Baghdadis gradually refashioned their ideology and aspirations on the British model. The Jewish experience in the lush land of Burma, with its lifestyles, its educational system, and its internal tensions, is emblematic of the experience of the extended Baghdadi community, whether in Bombay, Calcutta, Shanghai, Singapore, or other ports and towns throughout Southeast Asia. It also suggests the experience of the Anglo-Indian and similar 'European' populations that shared their streets as well as the classrooms of the missionary societies' schools. This contented life amidst golden pagodas ended abruptly with the Japanese invasion of Burma and a horrific trek to safety in India and could not be restored after the war. Employing first-person testimonies and recovered documents, this study illuminates this little known period in imperial and Jewish histories.
Almost Englishmen
Correspondence Respecting an Assault on British Officers Near Cairo
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Category : Offences against the person
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : Offences against the person
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Peopling of British North America
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394757793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society. Voyagers to the West, which covers the British migration in the years just before the American Revolution and is the first major volume in the Peopling project, is also available from Vintage Books.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0394757793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society. Voyagers to the West, which covers the British migration in the years just before the American Revolution and is the first major volume in the Peopling project, is also available from Vintage Books.
The Near East
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Category : Eastern question (Balkan)
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : Eastern question (Balkan)
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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The North British Review
The American Review of Reviews
Author: Albert Shaw
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Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Languages : en
Pages : 834
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American Monthly Review of Reviews
Recreation
The British Empire Series: British America
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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