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ANGLO-JEWRY:
OVERVIEW
2000
Dr. Sharman Kadish
Five Wednesday evenings commencing February 14th, at Ashburne Hall of
Residence
A thematic introduction to the Jewish scene in Britain today which
will analyse current trends in the context of the historical
development of the community in the modern period. See Selected
Bibliography.
A. Demography: Who's a Jew? How many Jews are there in
Britain today? Where do they live? Counting heads: definitional and
methodological problems.
B. Economic and Social Development: From the ghetto of
Whitechapel to the 'Gilded Ghetto of Golders Green' (and
Manchester equivalents).
C. Religious Organisation: A Community of Communities?
The roots of religious division: synagogue groupings: Orthodox,
Reform and Liberal: the role of the Chief Rabbinate.
D. Political Development 1: 'Englishmen of the Mosaic Persuasion'
The Era of Emancipation; The Board of Deputies and the struggle
for political rights in Victorian England; the Jewish 'Liberal
Compromise.'
E. Political Development 2: From Emancipation to Cultural
Pluralism.
The impact of Zionism, Socialism and anti-Semitism. Is there a
Jewish vote? Changing perceptions of Jewish identity.
Ethnic Jews?
Dr Sharman Kadish: Honorary
Research Fellow, is the author of Bolsheviks and British Jews (Frank Cass
1992) [winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in 1993] and 'A
Good Jew and a Good Englishman': The Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade
1895-1995 (Vallentine Mitchell 1995). She was editor of Building
Jerusalem: Jewish Architecture in Britain (Vallentine Mitchell 1996). She
is Project Director of the Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage in the UK
& Ireland. Her current research interests include Anglo-Jewish
history, heritage conservation and Jewish art and architecture. Reviewer
for The Jerusalem Post.
Five Wednesday evenings commencing February 14th, at Ashburne Hall of
Residence (entrance at corner of Wilmslow Road and Old Hall Lane), at 7.45 p.m. (£25.00 for
course or £6.50 per night at the door).
Further details from cjs@man.ac.uk, 275 3614,
or print off a form (click
here).
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SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alderman,
Geoffrey
The Jewish Community in British Politics (Oxford
1983) London Jewry and London Government (London and New York 1989)
Modern British Jewry (Oxford
1992, 2nd edn updated 1998)
Bermant,
Chaim
The Cousinhood (New York 1971)
Troubled Eden (London 1969)
Point of Arrival (London 1975)
Black,
Eugene C. The Social Politics of Anglo-Jewry
1880-1920 (Oxford 1988)
Bolchover,
Richard British Jewry and the
Holocaust (Cambridge 1993)
Brook,
Stephen The Club: The Jews of Modern Britain (London 1989)
Cesarani,
David (ed) The Making of Modern Anglo-Jewry (Oxford 1990)
The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry 1841-1991 (Cambridge 1994)
Cheyette,
Brian Constructions of ‘the Jew’ in English Literature and Society:
Racial Representations, 1875-1945 (Cambridge 1993)
Cohen,
Stuart English Zionists and British Jews (Princeton 1982)
Endelman,
Todd M. The Jews of Georgian England
(Philadelphia 1979)
Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History
1656-1945 (Indiana 1990)
Englander,
David (ed) A Documentary History of Jewish Immigrants in Britain
1840-1920 (Leicester 1994)
Feldman,
David Englishmen and Jews: Social relations and Political Cultures
1840-1914 (Yale 1994)
Felsenstein,
Frank Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture
(Baltimore 1995)
Fishman,
William J. East End Jewish Radicals (London 1975)
Gainer,
Bernard The Alien Invasion: The Origins of the Aliens Act of 1905 (London
1972)
Garrard,
John The English and Immigration (London 1971)
Gartner, Lloyd The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870-1914 (New York 1960)
Holmes,
Colin Anti-Semitism in British Society 1876-1939 (London 1979)
Kadish,
Sharman
Bolsheviks and British Jews (London
1992)
‘A Good Jew and a Good Englishman’: The Jewish
Lads’ and Girls’ Brigade 1895-1995 (London 1995)
(ed.) Building Jerusalem: Jewish Architecture in
Britain (London 1996)
Katz,
David S. The Jews in the History of England 1485-1850 (Oxford 1994)
Kershen,
Anne J. Uniting the Tailors: Trade
Unionism amongst the Tailoring Workers of London and
Leeds, 1870-1939 (London 1995)
Kershen,
Anne J and Romain, Jonathan A. Tradition
and Change: A History of Reform Judaism in Britain 1840-1995 (London 1995)
Kushner,
Tony
The Persistence of Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in
British Society during the Second World War (Manchester 1989)
(ed.) The Jewish Heritage in British History (London 1992)
Lebzelter,
Gisela Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918-1939 (Oxford 1978)
Lipman,
Vivian D. A Social History of the Jews in England (London 1954)
Mosse,
Werner E. (ed.) Second Chance: Two Centuries of German-speaking Jews
in the United Kingdom (Tubingen
1991)
Pollins,
Harold Economic History of the Jews in England (Oxford 1983)
Roth,
Cecil A History of the Jews in England (Oxford 1949)
Rubinstein,
William D. A History of the Jews in the English-speaking
World: Great Britain (London 1996)
Salbstein, M.C.N. The Emancipation of the Jews in Britain (London and
Toronto 1982)
White, Gerry Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block (Oxford
1980)
Williams, Bill The Making of Manchester Jewry 1740-1815 (Manchester 1976)
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