1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996496567603316

Autore

Abosch-Jacobson Sara

Titolo

"We are not only English Jews-we are Jewish Englishmen" : The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Identity, 1840-1880 / / Sara Abosch-Jacobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-64469-086-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Lands and Ages of the Jewish People

Disciplina

305.892/404209034

Soggetti

1800s Jewish history

19th century Anglo-Jews

19th century history

Anglo-Jewry

British Jews

British history

English history

English society

History;English Jews;Jews

Jewish Chronicle

Jewish demography

Jewish education

Jewish emancipation

Jewish life in England

Jewish studies

London

United Kingdom

charity

class

communal religious life

diaspora

modern Jewish history

modern Jewish identity formation

nineteenth century history

philanthropy

religious culture

religious studies

responses to modernity

social history



zedakah

HISTORY / Jewish

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A 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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254790103321

Autore

Robson J

Titolo

Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels : How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era / / by J. Robson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137311849

1137311843

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Classificazione

HIS037000HIS037070HIS054000

Disciplina

305.40941

Soggetti

Engineering

Life sciences

Social sciences

Humanities

Science

Mathematics

Social history

Technology and Engineering

Life Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Physical Sciences

Mathematics and Computing

Social History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- IntroductionProloguePART I1. Radicals in Suburbia2. Learning Curves3. Finding Their Own Way4. 'Another Word for Suicide'5. 'Fellowship is Heaven'PART II6. Answering the Call7. 'Not Much Home About It'8. Behind Closed Doors9. Girls in Trades10. Medical MenPART III11. A Place to Begin Again12. 'Ignoble Motives'13. The Politics of Knitting14. Landfall15. After Lives.

Sommario/riassunto

The fin de siècle was a time of social and cultural upheaval, with many women living more adventurous and defiant lives than their mothers



would ever have dreamed possible. This is the true story of an Englishwoman who staged her own death and re-invented herself in the far colony of New Zealand, in the early 1900s. Grace Oakeshott's life is revealed through the reform movements of the period, including education for girls, ethical socialism, Victorian evangelicalism, and the changing nature of marriage. As a social activist, Grace rubbed shoulders with many notable figures, including William Morris, H. G. Wells, and Sydney and Beatrice Webb. Jocelyn Robson uses a rich collection of historical sources, including contemporary fiction and social commentary, archive documents and interviews with surviving family members. Through the lives of Grace and those close to her we discover what drove people to act in extraordinary (as well as ordinary) ways.