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Controversy and Crisis : Studies in the History of the Jews in Modern Britain / Geoffrey Alderman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Judaism and Jewish LifePublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (375 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781934843222
  • 9781618110572
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 941/.004924 22
LOC classification:
  • DS135.E5 A5775 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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 Britain and revealing secrets the Anglo-Jewish communities would rather have kept from public view. In Controversy and Crisis, Alderman presents sixteen of these essays, covering fields as disparate as the history of the Jewish vote in the UK, the true story of the British Chief Rabbinate, and the uneasy tenure of Sir Jonathan Sacks in that office. He also considers the role of the historian in Anglo-Jewish life, and the troubled careers of some of its leaders and scholars.
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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

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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 Britain and revealing secrets the Anglo-Jewish communities would rather have kept from public view. In Controversy and Crisis, Alderman presents sixteen of these essays, covering fields as disparate as the history of the Jewish vote in the UK, the true story of the British Chief Rabbinate, and the uneasy tenure of Sir Jonathan Sacks in that office. He also considers the role of the historian in Anglo-Jewish life, and the troubled careers of some of its leaders and scholars.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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