Introduction

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The frankaus of London: A study in radical assimilation, 1837–1967

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Anti-Semitism and apostasy in Nineteenth-Century France: A response to Jonathan Helfand

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Creativity and commerce: Michael Klinger and new film history

The crisis in film studies and history concerning their legitimacy and objectives has provoked a reinvigoration of scholarly energy in historical enquiry. 'New film history' attempts to address the concerns of historians and film scholars by working self-reflexively with an expanded range of sources and a wider conception of 'film' as a dynamic set of processes rather than a series of texts. The practice of new film history is here exemplified through a detailed case study of the independent British producer Michael Klinger (active 1961-87) with a specific focus on his unsuccessful attempt to produce a war film, Green Beach, based on a memoir of the Dieppe raid (August 1942). This case study demonstrates the importance of analysing the producer's role in understanding the complexities of film-making, the continual struggle to balance the competing demands of creativity and commerce. In addition, its subject matter - an undercover raid and a Jewish hero - disturbed the dominant myths concerning the Second World War, creating what turned out to be intractable ideological as well as financial problems. The paper concludes that the concerns of film historians need to engage with broader cultural and social histories. © 2010 Taylor & Francis

The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000

In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of the State of Israel, but inconspicuous in shaping the character and outlook of modern Jewry. Their story, less dramatic perhaps than that of other Jewish communities, is no less deserving of this comprehensive and finely balanced analytical account. Even though Jews were never completely absent from Britain after the expulsion of 1290, it was not until the mid- seventeenth century that a permanent community took root. Endelman devotes chapters to the resettlement; to the integration and acculturation that took place, more intensively than in other European states, during the eighteenth century; to the remarkable economic transformation of Anglo-Jewry between 1800 and 1870; to the tide of immigration from Eastern Europe between 1870 and 1914 and the emergence of unprecedented hostility to Jews; to the effects of World War I and the turbulent events up to and including the Holocaust; and to the contradictory currents propelling Jewish life in Britain from 1948 to the end of the twentieth century. We discover not only the many ways in which the Anglo-Jewish experience was unique but also what it had in common with those of other Western Jewish communities

L'activité économique des juifs anglais

The jewish economic activity in England. The character of Jewish economic activity in eighteenth-century England was misrepresented in the polemics that accompanied the incorporation of the Jews into English society. Both friends and foes exaggerated the role of the Anglo-Jewish financial and mercantile elite and ignored almost completely the bulk of the Jewish community, who were engaged in a variety of low-status street trades. Most Anglo-Jewish economic activity was non-innovative and unrevolutionary, and had little bearing on the emergence of England as the first industrial nation. Most English Jews followed trades similar to those of Jews in Western and Central Europe, from whence most English Jews, or their immediate ancestors, had emigrated.Endelman Todd M. L'activité économique des juifs anglais. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°13, 1981. Juifs et judaïsme. pp. 113-126