The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000: Volume 3 (Jewish Communities in the Modern World) - Softcover

Endelman, Todd M. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520227204 ISBN 13: 9780520227200

Publisher: University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of the State of Israel, but inconspicuous in shaping the character and outlook of modern Jewry. Their story, less dramatic perhaps than that of other Jewish communities, is no less deserving of this comprehensive and finely balanced analytical account.

Even though Jews were never completely absent from Britain after the expulsion of 1290, it was not until the mid- seventeenth century that a permanent community took root. Endelman devotes chapters to the resettlement; to the integration and acculturation that took place, more intensively than in other European states, during the eighteenth century; to the remarkable economic transformation of Anglo-Jewry between 1800 and 1870; to the tide of immigration from Eastern Europe between 1870 and 1914 and the emergence of unprecedented hostility to Jews; to the effects of World War I and the turbulent events up to and including the Holocaust; and to the contradictory currents propelling Jewish life in Britain from 1948 to the end of the twentieth century. We discover not only the many ways in which the Anglo-Jewish experience was unique but also what it had in common with those of other Western Jewish communities.

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"Endelman's treatment is clear, detailed and pleasurably opinionated."--"Times Literary Supplement

Synopsis

In Todd Endelman's narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of the State of Israel, but inconspicuous in shaping the character and outlook of modern Jewry. Even though Jews were never complelety absent from Britan after the expulsion of 1290, it was not until the mid-17th century that a permanent community took root. Endelmann deveotes chapters to the resettlement; to the intergration and acculturation that took place, more intensively than in other European states, during the 18th century; to the economic transformation of Anglo-Jewry between 1800 and 1870; to the tide of immigration from Eastern Europe between 1870 and 1914 and the emergence of unprecedented hostility to Jews; to the effects of World War I and the turbulent events up to and including the Holocaust; and to the contradictory currents propelling Jewish life in Britain from 1948 to the end of the 20th century.

This book aims to discover not only the many ways in which the Anglo-Jewish experience was uni

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0520227204
• ISBN 13: 9780520227200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362