Description
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval to the present. The particular focus is on the relationship between the local (in this case Hampshire), the national and the global. -- .
Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgments
1. Placing the 'local'
2. Wessex tales/Yiddisher spiels
3. Winchester: Constructing the city of memories
4. Point of contestation: Jews in Portsmouth during the long eighteenth century
5. Jewish emancipation and after: Locality, brotherhood and the nature of tolerance
6. Settlement and migration from the 1850s to 1914
7. Historicizing the invisible: Transmigrancy, memory and local identities
8. Memory at the margins, matter out of place: Hidden narratives of Jewish settlement and movement in the interwar years
Conclusion
Index
