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Britain's Jews - Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety
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Britain's Jews - Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety
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Jews in Britain have risen to the top of nearly every profession,
they run major companies, sit at the top tables in politics and are
prominent in science, arts and media. Of course there is poverty
and disadvantage, just as there is in any community, but
objectively, British Jews have done well. Particularly when we
consider where they came from: the impoverished, often oppressed
lives that many Jews lived in Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire
less than 200 years ago. British Jews have lived safely and
continuously in Britain longer than any other modern Jewish
community has lived anywhere else in the world. Jews are so
ingrained into the national fabric of Britain that they are often
not considered to be a minority at all. They have organised
themselves in a way that serves as a model both to more recent
immigrant communities in Britain and to Jewish communities
elsewhere. Being British, they wear their distinctions lightly,
they don’t trumpet their achievements. But they give back
quietly: Jewish organisations help more recently arrived
minorities, charities draw on the Jewish experience of persecution
to help oppressed people in the developing world, philanthropists
support causes far beyond their own communities’ boundaries.
Based on conversations with Jews from all walks of life,
Britain’s Jews depicts what it is like to be Jewish in 21st
century Britain and why Jewish life is still a subject of
fascination.
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Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Continuum
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Harry Freedman
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Dimensions: |
216 x 135mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4729-8723-5 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-4729-8723-3 |
Barcode: |
9781472987235 |
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