Britain: Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews?

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Britain: Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews?: The unique situation of Jews in Britain has had upsides and downsides

For the last few hundred years Jews have not faced overt persecution or anti-Semitism. Though welcomed into society, the casual stigmatization they faced often forced them to abandon their unique identity as Jews. While individual Jews prospered in England, Judaism and the Jewish community has fared less well.

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Todd M. Endelman is the William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the social history of Jews in Western Europe and in Anglo-Jewish history. He is the author of The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830: Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society (1979), Radical Assimilation in Anglo-Jewish History, 1656-1945 (1990), and The Jews of Britain, 1656-2000 (2002).

The unique situation of Jews in Britain has had upsides and downsides

Britain: Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews?: The unique situation of Jews in Britain has had upsides and downsides

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