Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England

Jewish Historical Studies

Volume 50, Issue 1

Issue date: 16 April 2019

Journal: Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England

INTRODUCTION: Continuing Tumult Michael Berkowitz	ix
Remembering Lucien Wolf- reconsidering his legacy Mark Levene	8
Samuel of Norwich in the marshlands of King’s Lynn: economic tribulations reconstructed from a newly discovered thirteenth-century Hebrew starr in Cambridge University Library Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Sian Collins	14
Shirts, biscuits, and underpants: unveiling the lower social strata of London’s Sephardi congregation in the eighteenth century through its inner arbitration court Alex Kerner	45
Evangelical Anglican missionaries and the London Jews Society: Palestine Place at Bethnal Green and related developments, 1813-1895 Rodney Curtis	69
Singing between the lines: modernity and women’s voices in British synagogues Rachel Adelstein	101
PUBLIC HISTORY FORUM: The Jewish community in modern-day Bradford Grace Idle	122
A chronological survey of the collective biography of British Jews Michael Jolles	159
“Before Fiddler on the Roof , before The Jazz Singer , there was Deborah ” Lars Fischer	183
Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation, Wendy I. Zierler Nathan Abrams	191
Why Harry Met Sally: Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love, Joshua Louis Moss Wendy Zierler	194
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, Lillian Faderman Lars Fischer	199
Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler: The Forgotten Founder, Derek Taylor Geoffrey Alderman	203
Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades, ed. Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen Deborah Dash Moore	206
Louis Bamberger: Department Store Innovator and Philanthropist, Linda B. Forgosh Paul Lerner	209
Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture, ed. Nathan Abrams Lucy Fischer	212
Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor, and the Establishment of the State of Israel, Adam M. Howard Robert D. Parmet	215
The “Estranged” Generation? Social and Generational Change in Interwar British Jewry, David Dee Susan Tananbaum	218
Ben Helfgott: The Story of One of the Boys, Michael Freedland François Guesnet	222
Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884–1914, Vivi Lachs William Pimlott	226