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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. 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN and in the United States of America by FRANKCASS 270 Madison Ave, New York NY 10016 Transferred to Digital Printing 2006 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'.
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