Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry

Jewish Historical Studies

Volume 49, Issue 1

Issue date: 08 March 2018

Journal: Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry

Introduction: Historical boom and bust – and the (British) Jewish question Michael Berkowitz	ix
Jewish children singing Dixie: The toll of the Confederate Monuments as seen by a Jew, a native southerner, and an art historian Gail Levin	1
Anglo-Jewish periodicals of the 1840s: The Voice of Jacob and two Jewish Chronicles Geoffrey Cantor	12
Nazi persecution in Anglo-Zionist thought, 1939–1949 Aaron Simons	36
The materiality of debt to Jews in England, 1194–1276 Dean A. Irwin	56
Arbitration and conflict resolution in the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation in London in the eighteenth century Alex Kerner	72
The founding of the London Bet Holim hospital in 1748 and the secularization of sedaca in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community in the eighteenth century Julia R. Lieberman	106
Bradford’s Jewish history: A reconsideration, part one Grace Idle	144
The first Jewish governor in the British Empire, Sir Matthew Nathan: An “outsider” in Africa and Ireland Graham Dominy	162
Why did Lord Balfour back the Balfour Declaration? Philip Alexander	188
The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877–1935, Matthew Baigell Lars Fischer	215
Care and Conflict: The Story of the Jewish Orphanage at Norwood , Lawrence Cohen Timm Kunstreich	219
The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias, a Welsh Jew in Palestine , Jasmine Donahaye Cai Parry-Jones	221
Antisemitism and the Left: On the Return of the Jewish Question , Robert Fine and Philip Spencer Ewa Morawska	225
The Jewish Community of Golders Green: A Social History, Pam Fox Michael Jolles	230
Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question Alice Kessler-Harris	232
A Rocky Road: Memoirs , Abraham Levy with Simon Rocker Vivian Wineman	234
Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted , Patricia Keer Munro Ken Koltun-Fromm	237
Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History , Barry Stiefel with David Rittenberg Laura Leibman	240
Defenders of the faith: The history of Jews’ College and the London School of Jewish Studies , Derek Taylor Geoffrey Alderman	243
“Something Dreadful and Grand”: American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious , Stephen Watt George Bornstein	246