Author: Geoffrey Alderman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198207597
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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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: Stephan Wendehorst
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199265305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
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Stephan E. C. Wendehorst explores the relationship between British Jewry and Zionism from 1936 to 1956, a crucial period in modern Jewish history encompassing both the shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel. He attempts to provide an answer to what, at first sight, appears to be a contradiction: the undoubted prominence of Zionism among British Jews on the one hand, and its diverse expressions, ranging from aliyah to making a donation to a Zionist fund, on the other. Wendehorst argues that the ascendancy of Zionism in British Jewry is best understood as a particularly complex, but not untypical, variant of the 19th and 20th century's trend to re-imagine communities in a national key. He examines the relationship between British Jewry and Zionism on three levels: the transnational Jewish sphere of interaction, the British Jewish community, and the place of the Jewish community in British state and society. The introduction adapts theories of nationalism so as to provide a framework of analysis for Diaspora Zionism. Chapter one addresses the question of why British Jews became Zionists, chapter two how the various quarters of British Jewry related to the Zionist project in the Middle East, chapter three Zionist nation-building in Britain and chapter four the impact of Zionism on Jewish relations with the larger society. The conclusion modifies the original argument by emphasising the impact that the specific fabric of British state and society, in particular the Empire, had on British Zionism.
Author: Stephan E. C. Wendehorst
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191617105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
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Stephan E. C. Wendehorst explores the relationship between British Jewry and Zionism from 1936 to 1956, a crucial period in modern Jewish history encompassing both the shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel. He attempts to provide an answer to what, at first sight, appears to be a contradiction: the undoubted prominence of Zionism among British Jews on the one hand, and its diverse expressions, ranging from aliyah to making a donation to a Zionist fund, on the other. Wendehorst argues that the ascendancy of Zionism in British Jewry is best understood as a particularly complex, but not untypical, variant of the 19th and 20th century's trend to re-imagine communities in a national key. He examines the relationship between British Jewry and Zionism on three levels: the transnational Jewish sphere of interaction, the British Jewish community, and the place of the Jewish community in British state and society. The introduction adapts theories of nationalism so as to provide a framework of analysis for Diaspora Zionism. Chapter one addresses the question of why British Jews became Zionists, chapter two how the various quarters of British Jewry related to the Zionist project in the Middle East, chapter three Zionist nation-building in Britain and chapter four the impact of Zionism on Jewish relations with the larger society. The conclusion modifies the original argument by emphasising the impact that the specific fabric of British state and society, in particular the Empire, had on British Zionism.
Author: Todd M. Endelman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration.
Author: Julius Gould
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000045919
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Originally published in 1964, this volume aims to convey global perspectives on the Jewish situation in the late 20th Century by discussing research in Jewish social structure and social problems. Historians and social scientists from around the world contributed to the volume to discuss subjects as diverse as oral history, communal organizing and Jewish education.
Author: Geoffrey Alderman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908684387
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An update and reexamination of the history of Jews in modern Britain
Author: Todd M. Endelman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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A history of the Jewish community in Britain, including resettlement, integration, acculturation, economic transformation and immigration.
Author: Geoffrey Alderman
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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An acknowledged authority on the history of the Jews in modern Britain presents 16 essays, covering fields as disparate as the history of the Jewish vote in the U.K., the true story of the British Chief Rabbinate, and the uneasy tenure of Sir Jonathan Sacks in that office.
Author: Stephen Brook
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: Keith Kahn-Harris
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441110402
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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The first book-length study of contemporary British Jewry , Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990. Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley contend that there has been a shift within Jewish communal discourse from a strategy of security, which emphasized Anglo-Jewry's secure British belonging and citizenship, to a strategy of insecurity, which emphasizes the dangers and threats Jews face individually and communally. This shift is part of a process of renewal in the community that has led to something of a 'Jewish renaissance' in Britain. Addressing key questions on the transitions in the history of Anglo-Jewish community and leadership, and tackling the concept of the 'new antisemitism', this important and timely study addresses the question: how has UK Jewry adapted from a shift from monoculturalism to multiculturalism?
