Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940

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Living with Difference, Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism

ISBN: 3319825100
ISBN 13: 9783319825106
Autor: Summers, Anne
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xi, 240 S., 10 s/w Illustr., 240 p. 10 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.07.2018
Auflage: 1/2017
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

This book offers an entirely new contribution to the history of multiculturalism in Britain, 1880-1940. It shows how friendship and co-operation between Christian and Jewish women changed lives and, as the Second World War approached, actually saved them. The networks and relationships explored include the thousand-plus women from every district in Manchester who combined to send a letter of sympathy to the Frenchwoman at the heart of the Dreyfus Affair; the religious leagues for women’s suffrage who initiated the first interfaith campaigning movement in British history; the collaborations, often problematic, on refugee relief in the 1930s; the close ties between the founder of Liberal Judaism in Britain, and the wife of the leader of the Labour Party, between the wealthy leader of the Zionist women’s movement and a passionate socialist woman MP. A great variety of sources are thoughtfully interrogated, and concluding remarks address some of the social concerns of the present century.

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Anne Summers is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She was formerly a Curator of Modern Historical Manuscripts at the British Library. Her many publications on women's history include Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses, 1854-1914 and Female Lives, Moral States: Women, Religion and Political Culture in Britain, 1800-1930.

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