The Centre for Jewish Studies
University of Manchester
Extra-Mural Lectures 1998-99
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Mar 16, Bill Williams: Leadership in Anglo-Jewry
Abstract:
The aim of this session is to use the Manchester example to pose a series
of questions around Jewish communal leadership in 20th-century Britain.
How do "leaders" emerge in a voluntary minority society within
which leadership is neither legally defined nor structurally determined?
What expectations does a community have of its leader(s) and how are these
discharged? And what, if any, is the relationship between the exercise
of communal and of civic authority? Finally, is there anything about the
changing make-up of Manchester Jewry which may bring about a revision of
traditional notions of communal leadership?
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Bill Williams is Part-time Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University
of Manchester and is engaged in research on Manchester Jewry, the impact
of immigration and the Holocaust, and leadership in Anglo-Jewry, including
a biography of Sir Sidney Hamburger shortly to appear. His major publications
are: The Making of Manchester Jewry (1976); Manchester Jewry,
a Pictorial History (1988).
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