Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture, 1840-1914

by David Feldman

This book presents an important new perspective on Jews in England - and English attitudes towards them - during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a period of fundamental change. At the accession of Queen Victoria, Jews in England were a small and disadvantaged minority, numbering no more than 30,000 and excluded from parliament. By the early twentieth century, political and legal disabilities had been almost completely abolished,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300055013
• ISBN13: 9780300055016
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"