Whatever Happened to British Jewish Studies?
London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2012. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 404 pp., tables, abstracts, index. Very Good. Item #63148
ISBN: 9780853039549
Introduction: "Whatever Happened to British Jewish Studies? In Search of Contexts," Kushner and Ewence. Articles are "Anglo-Jewish Historiography and the jewish Historiographical Mainstream," Todd Endelman, "Between Integration and Separation: Jews and Military Service in World War I Britian," Anne, Lloyd, "Jews, Britons, Empire: And How Things Might be Very Different," Mark Levene, "Dilemmas of Jewish Difference: Reflections on Contemporary Research into Jewish Origins and Types from an Anglo-Jewish Historical Perspective," Gavin Schaffer, "How Post-War Britain Reflected on the Nazi Persecution and mss Murder of Europe's Jews: A Reassessment of Early Responses," David Cesarini, "'The Wandering Jew has no Nation': Jewishness and Race Relations Law," Didi Herman, "Counter-Institutionalism in Anglo-Jewry: The Norwood Rebellion," Lawrence Cohen, "Btitish Jewish Literature and Culture: An Introduction," Nadia Valman, "Blurring the Boundaries of Difference: Dracula, the Empire, and 'the jew,'" Ewence, "Wandering Lonely Jews in the English Countryside," Kushner, "Assimilated, Integrated, Other: An Introduction to Jews and British Television, 1946-55," James Jordan, "Displaced, Dysfunctional and Divided: British-Jewish Writing Today," Ruth Gilbert, "Negotiating Jewish Identity through the Display of Art," Kathrin Pieren, "From Bola d'Amour to the Ultimate Cheesecake: 150 Years of Anglo-Jewish Cookery Writing," Jane Gerson, "From Mon Pays, the Shtetl and the Desh to London's East End: A Rationale for Comparative Migration Studies," Anne Kershon, "An Accidental Jewish Historian," Bill Williams, "The Anglo-Jewish Community and its Archives," Karen Robson, "Transforming the Jewish Museum: The Power of Narrative," Rickie Burman, "Synagogues at Risk: Report Based on the Findings of a Survey Carried Out by Jewish Heritage UK," Sharman Kadish.
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