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Englishmen and Jews - Social Relations and Political Culture, 1840-1914 (Hardcover)
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Englishmen and Jews - Social Relations and Political Culture, 1840-1914 (Hardcover)
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To what extent did English society of the late nineteenth century
accept or reject its Jewish minority? How did the Jews' religious,
communal, and political identities develop in the context of
English life? What was the impact of Jewish emigration from Eastern
Europe to England? How did these immigrants fare within the English
economy? This book presents an important new perspective on Jews in
England and English attitudes toward Jews during the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. It investigates the history of Jewish
integration more rigorously than any previous study and reveals
that, despite legal freedoms, cultural and political antipathy to
Jews was far greater than has been assumed. Drawing on a wide range
of source materials in both English and Yiddish, David Feldman
discusses arguments between Whigs and Tories over Jewish
emancipation; anti-Semitic assaults on Disraeli; the turbulent
political life of the Jewish East End of London; and the travails
of the immigrant sweatshop workers. By exposing the fractions and
divided nature of the Jewish working-class community, and by
pointing up similarities to non-Jewish working-class communities,
Feldman's analysis overturns the conventional interpretation of
growing homogenization of the wider working-class around 1900. The
book therefore has a threefold importance: it is a major
contribution to the debate about Victorian liberalism; it adds to
the discussion of class and community in pre-1914 English society;
and it goes well beyond all previous social histories of the Jewish
experience in London to reveal both the limitations and achievement
of Jewish integration there in the years before the First World
War.
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