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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254768203321

Autore

Dee David

Titolo

The 'Estranged' Generation? Social and Generational Change in Interwar British Jewry / / by David Dee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9781349952380

1349952389

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 377 p. 23 illus.)

Disciplina

941

Soggetti

Great Britain - History

Europe - History - 1492-

Social history

Civilization - History

Religion - History

History of Britain and Ireland

History of Modern Europe

Social History

Cultural History

History of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Home Life and Family -- Chapter Three: Education and Work -- Chapter Four: Religion -- Chapter Five: Politics -- Chapter Six: Sport and Recreation -- Chapter Seven: Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the nature and extent of social change, integration and identity transformation within the Jewish community of Britain during the interwar years. It concentrates mainly on examining the notion - espoused by communal and religious leaders throughout the 1920s and 1930s - that an 'estranged' generation of Jews of migrant heritage existed within the population. This book, therefore, focuses specifically on the migrant second generation (i.e. British and



foreign-born children of Russian and Eastern European Jews who migrated to Britain in the late Victorian era up to the First World War), and analyses their purported 'estrangement' from Jewish religion, culture, traditions and lifestyles and their acculturation of the values, characteristics, traits and identities of mainstream British society. It charts and analyses the fear of 'estrangement' evident among first generation migrants and the established Jewish community of Britain between the wars. However, the main focus is firmly placed on the migrant second generation themselves, and traces the nature and extent of this group's detachment from Jewish mores and customs and their attachment to mainstream society.