The Jewish Heritage in British History: Englishness and Jewishness

249 Pages·1992·26.441 MB·English

by  Tony Kushner (ed.)

THE JEWISH HERITAGE IN BRITISH HISTORY:
ENGLISHNESS AND JEWISHNESS

THE
JEWISH HERITAGE
IN
BRITISH HISTORY
Englishness and
Jewishness
Edited by
TONY KUSHNER
FRANK CASS
First published 1992 in Great Britain by
FRANK CASS & CO. LTD.
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Copyright © 1992 Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0-7146-3464-6 (hardback)
ISBN 0-7146-4086 7 (paperback)
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The Jewish heritage in British history: Englishness and Jewishness /
edited by Tony Kushner.
p. cm.
Published also as v. 10, no. 1 of Immigrants and minorities.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7146-3464-6. - ISBN 0-7146-4086-7 (pbk.)
1. Jews--Great Britain-Historiography. 2. Great Britain-Ethnic
relations-Historiography. 3. Synagogues--Great Britain-
-Conservation and restoration. I. Kushner, Tony (Antony Robin
Jeremy)
DS135.E5A2328 1992 92-12873
941' .004924-dc20 CIP
This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on 'The Jewish
Heritage in British History: Englishness and Jewishness' of Immigrants
and Minorities, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2, published by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any
means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior
permission of Frank Cass and Company Limited.
Typeset by Regent Typesetting, London
To
Bill Williams
for dragging Anglo-Jewish historiography
and heritage preservation into the late
twentieth century

Contents
Editor's Note xi
Heritage and Ethnicity: An Introduction Tony Kushner 1
Dual Heritage or Duel of Heritages?
Englishness and Jewishness in the
Heritage Industry David Cesarani 29
Englishness and Medieval Anglo-Jewry Colin Richmond 42
The Marginalization of Early Modern
Anglo-Jewish History David S. Katz 60
The End of the 'Anglo-Jewish Progress
Show': Representations of the Jewish
East End, 1887-1987 Tony Kushner 78
Carers and Servers of the Jewish
Community: The Marginalized Heritage
of Jewish Women in Britain Lara Marks 106
Heritage and Community: The Rescue of
Manchester's Jewish Past Bill Williams 128
Squandered Heritage: Jewish Buildings in
Britain Sharman Kadish 147
English Heritage, Statutory Control and
Jewish Buildings Susie Barson 166
Assimilation by Design: London
Synagogues in the Nineteenth Century Judy Glasman 171
Appendix:
Directory of Jewish Historical and Heritage
Resources in the United Kingdom 212
Index 230

Notes on Contributors
Susie Barson is an architectural historian working in the London
Region of English Heritage. She has prepared general guidelines
for the listing of synagogues.
David Cesarani is Director of Studies at the Institute of Contemporary
History and Wiener Library. His publications include The Making
of Modern Anglo-Jewry (1990).
Judy Glasman is senior lecturer in historical and contextual studies in
the Department of Art and Design, Nene College, Northampton.
She has recently been the visual art critic for New Moon magazine.
Sharman Kadish is a Researcher in the Department of History, Royal
Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. She
organized the conference 'The Future of Jewish Monuments in the
British Isles' in October 1991 and her Bolsheviks and British Jews
has just been published by Frank Cass (1992). She is chairman of the
Working Party on Jewish Monuments in the UK and Ireland.
David S. Katz is Professor of History, Tel Aviv University. Among his
many publications is Philo-Semitism and the Readmission of the
Jews to England, 1603-1655 (1982).
Tony Kushner is Parkes Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of
Southampton. His writing includes The Persistence of Prejudice
(1989) and he is convenor of the Working Party on Jewish Archives
in the United Kingdom.
Lara Marks is a Research Fellow in Queen Mary and Westfield
College, University of London. She has written extensively on
Anglo-Jewish women's history and has completed a doctorate
thesis which is being revised for publication on 'Irish and Jewish
women's experience of childbirth and infant care in East London
1870-1939'.