Research Catalog

Title

Battle for the East End : Jewish responses to fascism in the 1930s / David Rosenberg.

Author

Rosenberg, David, 1940-

Publication

Nottingham : Five Leaves, 2011.

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Details

Description

268 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

Following the economic depression of the early 1930s, antisemitism, whipped up by anti-alienist and fascist agitators, became a serious threat for British Jews. However, the British Jewish establishment - the Board of Deputies, the staff of "The Jewish Chronicle", etc. - refused to believe in the viability of British antisemitism and regarded it as an export from Central Europe, alien to Britain. After 1934, the British Union of Fascists, led by Oswald Mosley, became the main promoter of aggressive antisemitism. It was the Jewish population of London's East End who led the struggle against the fascist and antisemitic danger and formed defense organizations of their own, unsupported by the Jewish communal leadership. While in 1936, and later, it was impossible to ignore the rise of antisemitism in Britain, the leaders and spokesmen of the Jewish community resorted to a propaganda campaign and to self-criticism of "the Jews who rushed to the professions", they voiced anxiety about Jewish youth joining "extreme anti-fascists", and they opposed violent forms of struggle. In October 1936 it was the rank-and-file Jews, supported by non-Jewish workers and communists, who succeeded in thwarting a demonstration of the BUF in the East End.

Subject

• British Union of Fascists
• Geschichte 1932-1940
• 1900-1999
• Jews > England > London
• Fascism > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Antisemitism > Great Britain

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface (starting p. 7) -- Introduction (starting p. 11) -- 1. Britain's Jews (starting p. 17) -- 2. How Jews were viewed (starting p. 35) -- 3. The rise of Mosley's movement (starting p. 48) -- 4. Antisemitism and the British Union of Fascists (starting p. 86) -- 5. How Jewish leaders perceived the threat (starting p. 111) -- 6. Battle for the East End (starting p. 140) -- 7. Divided on defence: the grassroots rebellion (starting p. 166) -- 8. Rally to Aldgate and Cable Street (starting p. 192) -- 9. Antisemitism, fascism and the state (starting p. 226) -- Conclusion (starting p. 248)

ISBN

• 9781907869181
• 1907869182

OCLC

• 738371906
• SCSB-10736895

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library