Research Catalog

Title

Pride versus prejudice : Jewish doctors and lawyers in England, 1890-1990 / John Cooper.

Author

Cooper, John, 1935-

Publication

Oxford ; Portland, Ore. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003.

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Details

Description

viii, 451 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This pioneering study is a treasure trove of new information, illustrating the lives and professional experiences of the people involved in such a way as to demonstrate clearly both the obstacles they faced and the status they achieved. Its wealth of detail, in many cases fleshing out the careers of leading Jewish professional figures for the first time, makes engaging reading."
• "The narrative proceeds chronologically with careful attention to social context, starting with the Victorian and Edwardian eras. For the medical profession, the account of subsequent changes begins with the influx of Jews into medical schools after 1914. John Cooper goes on to describe the problems these Jewish medical students, most of them from immigrant families, encountered.
• Finding employment even as general practitioners was problematic, and almost insurmountable barriers confronted aspirants to consultant status. Afraid of antisemitic claims that Jews were flooding the market, the leaders of Anglo-Jewry even tried in the 1930s to dissuade young Jews from becoming doctors and lawyers. In this context, Cooper also considers the position of refugee doctors before and during the Second World War.
• The establishment of the National Health Service in 1948 resulted in fundamental changes, particularly in the way in which consultants were selected, and Cooper shows how this permitted Jewish doctors to enter specialties from which they had previously been excluded and to climb to the highest rungs within the medical hierarchy. He summarizes the careers of many prominent Jewish doctors."
• "The story John Cooper tells will appeal not only to readers with a general interest in the subject but also to social historians. It is based on a wide range of sources, including newspapers and professional journals, archival material, law reports, and interviews conducted by the author, and there are detailed indexes of names and subjects.
• As well as providing an illuminating account of recent Jewish social history, the book makes a valuable contribution to the history of the medical and legal professions and to the scholarly debate as to whether or not antisemitism was of peripheral or central importance in Anglo-Jewish history."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The Littman library of Jewish civilization

Uniform Title

Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Jewish physicians > England > History > 19th century
• Jewish physicians > England > History > 20th century
• Jewish lawyers > England > History > 19th century
• Jewish lawyers > England > History > 20th century
• Antisemitism > England > History
• Physicians > history
• History, 19th Century
• History, 20th Century
• Jews > history
• Lawyers > history
• Antisemitism
• Jewish lawyers
• Jewish physicians
• Artsen
• Juristen
• Joden
• England

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-424) and indexes.

Contents

Victorian and Edwardian Jewish doctors -- The entry of East European Jews into medicine, 1914-1939 -- Jewish general practitioners and consultants between the world wars -- Jewish barristers in the Victorian and Edwardian era, 1890-1914 -- Jews at the Bar form 1918 until the end of the Second World War -- Jews and the courts, 1900-1945 -- Jewish solicitors, 1890-1939 -- The entry of East European Jews into the law between the world wars -- Jewish refugee doctors -- Jewish refugee lawyers -- Jewish consultants after the Second World War -- Jewish solicitors, 1945-1990 -- Jewish communist, socialist, and maverick lawyers -- Jewish barristers, 1945-1990 -- Jews in the judiciary, 1945-1990.

ISBN

• 1874774870
• 9781874774877
• 9781906764425
• 1906764425

LCCN

2002030053

OCLC

• ocm50292683
• 50292683
• SCSB-1321131

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library