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"Elegantly crafted, studded with carefully balanced and shrewd judgments, and brimming with original and intelligent observations." - David B. Ruderman, author of Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key "Learned, well written, and up-to-date." - Thomas Laqueur, author of Religion and Respectability
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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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Edward I expelled the Jews of England in 1290, bringing to an abrupt end the medieval period in English Jewish history. Read the first page
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Edward I expelled the Jews of England in 1290, bringing to an abrupt end the medieval period in English Jewish history. Read the first page
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This is a well-written and accessible history, which gives an illuminating insight into the growth and development of the Jewish comunity in Britain. The illustrations are well-chosen and the book is well set out in successive chronological periods, giving a constructive overview of the topic whilst also providing a lot of useful and fascinating details from statistical, literary and historical sources.
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