1st Edition

The Jewish Heritage in British History Englishness and Jewishness

Edited By Tony Kushner Copyright 1992
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

'In the contemporary British context, ‘heritage’ is a highly politicized and contentious term', Tony Kusher writes in his introduction to this edited collection of essays on the subject of Jewish heritage, thus setting the tone for a book as much interested in the preservation as it is the understanding of this culture. This book provides a more theoretical framework for the pursuit of... Read more

1. Heritage and Ethnicity: An Introduction  2.Dual Heritage or Dual of Heritages?Englishness and Jewishness in the Heritage Industry  3. Englishness and Medieval Anglo-Jewy  4. The Marginalization of Early-Modern Anglo-Jewish History  5. The End of the 'Anglo-Jewish Progress Show'. Representations of the Jewish East End, 1887-1987  6. Carers and Servers of the Jewish Community: The Marginalized Heritage of Jewish Women in Britain  7. Heritage and Community: The Rescue of Manchester's Jewish Past  8. Squandered Heritage: Jewish Buildings in Britain  9. English Heritage, Statutory Control and Jewish Buildings  10. Assimilation by Design: London Synagogues in the Nineteenth Century

Biography

Tony Kushner