Research Catalog

Title

Modern British Jewry / Geoffrey Alderman.

Author

Alderman, Geoffrey.

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Details

Description

xiii, 397 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Jews of Britain over the last century and a half. Geoffrey Alderman examines the social structure and economic base of Jewish communities in Victorian England and traces the struggle for emancipation. He analyses the effects of the large-scale immigration of the early twentieth century, and charts the development of the Zionist movement in Britain." "Professor Alderman takes his account up to the present day, exploring the concerns and self-image of contemporary Jewish communities in Britain and their place in an increasingly pluralist society." "Based on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Modern British Jewry is a political, social, and intellectual history of British Jews which is critical, scholarly, and immensely readable."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Jews > Great Britain > History
• Great Britain > Ethnic relations

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. British Jewry on the Eve of Emancipation -- 2. Emancipation Politics and Party Politics -- 3. Immigration and Social Control -- 4. Strange Doctrines -- 5. The End of Consensus -- 6. The Defence of an Image -- 7. A House Divided.

ISBN

0198201451 :

LCCN

^^^92000899^

OCLC

• 25200941
• SCSB-11447857

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library