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Controversy and crisis : studies in the history of the Jews in modern Britain /

Professor Geoffrey Alderman is the acknowledged authority on the history of the Jews in modern Britain. During an academic career spanning forty years he has produced some of the most authoritative and controversial studies in this field, lighting up the dark corners of the Jewish existence in Great...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alderman, Geoffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008.
Colección:Judaism and Jewish life.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Anglo-Jewry: A Suitable Case for Treatment
  • II. Academic Duty and Communal Obligation: Some Thoughts on the Writing of Anglo-Jewish History
  • III. The Jew as Scapegoat? The Settlement and Reception of Jews in South Wales before 1914
  • IV. The Anti-Jewish Riots of August 1911 in South Wales: A Response
  • V. The British Chief Rabbinate: a Most Peculiar Practice
  • VI. Power, Authority and Status in British Jewry: The Chief Rabbinate and Shechita
  • VII. The defence of shechita: Anglo-Jewry and the 'humane conditions' regulations of 1990
  • VIII. Jewish Political Attitudes and Voting Patterns in England 1945
  • 1987
  • IX. London Jewry and London Politics, 1889 -1934
  • X. Jews in the Economy of London (1850
  • 1940)
  • XI. M.H. Davis: The Rise and Fall of a Communal Upstart
  • XII. English Jews or Jews of the English Persuasion: Reflections on the Emancipation of Anglo-Jewry
  • XIII. British Jewry: The Disintegration of a Community
  • XIV. That Letter ... Rabbinical Politics and Jewish Management
  • XV. Kosher Sex and Leadership Lubrication
  • XVI. Cecil Roth: A Personal Appraisal
  • Guide to Further Reading
  • Index