Description
Book SynopsisA distinct Anglo-Jewish identity developed in Britain between 1840 and 1880. Over the course of these forty years, a mature, increasingly comfortable, native-born Jewish community emerged and matured in London. The multifaceted growth and change in communal institutional and religious structures and habits, as well as the community's increasing familiarity and comfort with the larger English society, contributed to the formation of an Anglo-Jewish communal identity. The history of this community and the ways in which it developed are explored in this volume using archival and also contemporary advertising material that appeared in the
Jewish Chronicle and other Anglo-Jewish newspapers in these years.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Glossary of Terms
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Note on Sources
- Chapter One: Jewish Life in England after Readmission
- Chapter Two: Dissent and Decorum: Establishing Community and its Limits (Anglo-Jewish Community and its Discontents)
- Chapter Three: London Jews and the Giving of Ẓedakah and Charity: Creating Anglo-Judaic Practice
- Chapter Four: Anglo-Jewry on the Move: Demographic, Political, Social, and Economic Change
- Chapter Five: London Jews and Education: On Becoming English and Remaining Jewish—By Class and Design
- Conclusion: The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Identity, 1840–1880
- Appendix 1: Sampling of Charities and Charitable Institutions Advertising or Soliciting Subscribers in the Jewish Chronicle, 1841–1859
- Appendix 2: Sampling of Charitable Institutions, Friendly Societies, and So Forth, 1874
- Bibliography
