Derek Fraser

Leeds and its Jewish community (eBook, ePUB)

A history

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides a comprehensive history of the third-largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and urban historiography. Bringing together the latest research and building on earlier local studies, the book provides an analysis of the special features which shaped the community in Leeds. Organised in three sections, Context, Chronology and Contours, the book demonstrates how Jews have influenced the city and how the city has influenced the community. A small community was transformed by the late Victorian influx of poor migrants from the Russian Empire and within two generations had become successfully integrated into the city's social and economic structure. More than a dozen authors contribute to this definitive history and the editor provides both an introductory and concluding overview which brings the story up to the present day. The book will be of interest to both historians and general readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526123114
• Artikelnr.: 56515397

Autorenporträt

Derek Fraser is Emeritus Professor of History at Teesside University

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Preface List of abbreviations Introduction Part I: The context 1 National: Jews in Britain: an historical overview
Geoffrey Alderman 2 Local: Leeds in the age of great cities
Derek Fraser 3 Demographic: The Jewish population of Leeds: how many Jews?
Nigel Grizzard Part II: The chronology 4 Jews as Yorkshiremen: Jewish identity in late
Victorian Leeds
James Appell 5 Britishness and Jewishness: integration and separation
Aaron Kent 6 Pragmatism or politics: Leeds Jewish tailors and Leeds Jewish tailoring trade unions, 1876
1915
Anne J. Kershen 7 The Edwardian Jewish community and the First World War
Nigel Grizzard 8 Zionism in Leeds 1892
1939
Janet Douglas 9 The unwalled ghetto: mobility and anti
semitism in the interwar period
Amanda Bergen 10 The Second World War
Ian Vellins Part III: The contours of the Leeds Jewish community 11 Jewish heritage in Leeds
Sharman Kadish 12 Fellowship and philanthropy
Derek Fraser 13 At rest and play: leisure and sporting activities
Phil Goldstone 14 The influence of personalities
Michael Meadowcroft 15 Spaces of Jewish belonging
Irina Kudenko 16 The community today and its recent history
Derek Fraser Index