Introduction 1. Moneylenders and Misers: the Eighteenth Century to the Second World War 2. ‘Conversion’ to Englishness: Refugees and Belonging 3. The Hyphen Problem: British-Jewish Identity 4. Mother, Monster, Mensch: Jews and Gender 5. ‘Good Jews’ or ‘Bad Jews’?: The Jewish Question Revisited Conclusion
Biography
Madelyn J. Travis is an Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published on historical and contemporary British and American children’s literature and is currently researching Jewish childhood in England. This is her first book.
'An original and significant addition to understanding of the interaction of British culture with the Jews and "Jews."' - Professor David Feldman, author of Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture1840-1914
'The book is a valiant effort to address the intersection of Jewish studies and children's literature...Travis covers such a wide range of literature and addresses so many salient topics...This work has the potential to stimulate serious investigation of such topics.' - Barbara Thiede, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2014
