Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Preface viii
4. Acknowledgments xii
5. I. Anglo-Jewry: A Suitable Case for Treatment 1
6. II. Academic Duty and Communal Obligation: Some Thoughts on the Writing of Anglo-Jewish History 37
7. III. The Jew as Scapegoat? The Settlement and Reception of Jews in South Wales before 1914 53
8. IV. The Anti-Jewish Riots of August 1911 in South Wales: A Response 75
9. V. The British Chief Rabbinate: a Most Peculiar Practice 83
10. VI. Power, Authority and Status in British Jewry: The Chief Rabbinate and Shechita 111
11. VII. The defence of shechita: Anglo-Jewry and the ‘humane conditions’ regulations of 1990 137
12. VIII. Jewish Political Attitudes and Voting Patterns in England 1945 – 1987 163
13. IX. London Jewry and London Politics, 1889 -1934 193
14. X. Jews in the Economy of London (1850 – 1940) 229
15. XI. M. H. Davis: The Rise and Fall of a Communal Upstart 245
16. XII. English Jews or Jews of the English Persuasion: Reflections on the Emancipation of Anglo-Jewry 273
17. XIII. British Jewry: The Disintegration of a Community 311
18. XIV. That Letter ……. Rabbinical Politics and Jewish Management 337
19. XV. Kosher Sex and Leadership Lubrication 347
20. XVI. Cecil Roth: A Personal Appraisal 355
21. Guide to Further Reading 364
22. Index 368