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Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Charity, Community and Religion, 1830-1880 (Paperback)
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Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Charity, Community and Religion, 1830-1880 (Paperback)
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This book examines Jewish communities in Britain in an era of
immense social, economic and religious change: from the
acceleration of industrialisation to the end of the first phase of
large-scale Jewish immigration from Europe. Using the 1851 census
alongside extensive charity and community records, Jews in
Nineteenth-Century Britain tests the impact of migration, new types
of working and changes in patterns of worship on the family and
community life of seven of the fastest-growing industrial towns in
Britain. Communal life for the Jews living there (over a third of
whom had been born overseas) was a constantly shifting balance
between the generation of wealth and respectability, and the risks
of inundation by poor newcomers. But while earlier studies have
used this balance as a backdrop for the story of individual Jewish
communities, this book highlights the interactions between the
people who made them up. At the core of the book is the question of
what membership of the 'imagined community' of global Jewry meant:
how it helped those who belonged to it, how it affected where they
lived and who they lived with, the jobs that they did and the
wealth or charity that they had access to. By stitching together
patterns of residence, charity and worship, Alysa Levene is here
able to reveal that religious and cultural bonds had vital
functions both for making ends meet and for the formation of
identity in a period of rapid demographic, religious and cultural
change.
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