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Author: I. Finestein
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All of the essays in this book were previously published. Topics deal with the changing populations in England during that period which were caused by mass immigration. The post-Emancipation tensions within the Jewish community and the role of such leaders as Sir Moses Montefiore and Sir George Kessel, the noted juris, are elaborated on.
Author: David Cesarani
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0300221894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lauded as a “great Jew,” excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain’s most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking, lucid investigation of Disraeli’s life and accomplishments, David Cesarani draws a new portrait of one of Europe’s leading nineteenth-century statesmen, a complicated, driven, opportunistic man. While acknowledging that Disraeli never denied his Jewish lineage, boasted of Jewish achievements, and argued for Jewish civil rights while serving as MP, Cesarani challenges the assumption that Disraeli truly cared about Jewish issues. Instead, his driving personal ambition required him to confront his Jewishness at the same time as he acted opportunistically. By creating a myth of aristocratic Jewish origins for himself, and by arguing that Jews were a superior race, Disraeli boosted his own career but also contributed to the consolidation of some of the most fundamental stereotypes of modern antisemitism.
Author: Michael Galchinsky
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2018-02-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0814344453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Michael Galchinsky demonstrates that these women writers were the most widely recognized spokespersons for the haskalah. Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew's emancipation in the Victorian world and women's emancipation in the Jewish world.
Author: Alysa Levene
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1350102202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines Jewish communities in Britain in an era of immense social, economic and religious change: from the acceleration of industrialisation to the end of the first phase of large-scale Jewish immigration from Europe. Using the 1851 census alongside extensive charity and community records, Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain tests the impact of migration, new types of working and changes in patterns of worship on the family and community life of seven of the fastest-growing industrial towns in Britain. Communal life for the Jews living there (over a third of whom had been born overseas) was a constantly shifting balance between the generation of wealth and respectability, and the risks of inundation by poor newcomers. But while earlier studies have used this balance as a backdrop for the story of individual Jewish communities, this book highlights the interactions between the people who made them up. At the core of the book is the question of what membership of the 'imagined community' of global Jewry meant: how it helped those who belonged to it, how it affected where they lived and who they lived with, the jobs that they did and the wealth or charity that they had access to. By stitching together patterns of residence, charity and worship, Alysa Levene is here able to reveal that religious and cultural bonds had vital functions both for making ends meet and for the formation of identity in a period of rapid demographic, religious and cultural change.
Author: Anne Cowen
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1986-12-11
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1909821276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book reproduces, with commentary, pictures from Victorian illustrated magazines such as "Punch", "The Illustrated London News", and "The Graphic", to show how Jewish subjects were presented to Victorian readers.
Author: Geoffrey Alderman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780198207597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Doreen Berger
Publisher: Witney, Oxfordshire : Robert Boyd Publications
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 604
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Entries are taken from the Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Record and the Jewish World.
Author: Irina Fridman
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-18
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book provides a comprehensive history of one of the largest provincial Jewish communities of Victorian Britain and fills in a gap in both Jewish and local historiography. Starting with the puzzle of the first Jewish community of Rochester in the 12th and 13th centuries, it then proceeds to look at the aftermath of the Jewish expulsion from the country and the return of the Jewish community to England in the 17th century. The pioneering study concentrates on closely examining the inception and the development of the Jewish community within the religious, social and political landscapes of the Medway towns of Rochester and Chatham throughout the centuries, until the 1930s, just before the start of the Second World War. The book will be of interest for both, historians and general readers
