Bolsheviks and British Jews : the Anglo-Jewish community, Britain, and the Russian Revolution
Analyzes the impact which the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20 had on British Jewry and on the attitude of British society toward Jews. Both the well-rooted, wealthy Jewry of London's West End and the immigrant communities of the East End and of the industrial cities of the country hailed the February revolution, which emancipated Russian Jews, but did not support the October revolution, seeing an antisemitic element in it. Nevertheless, both groups were concerned about the overt antisemitism of the White movement. The events in Russia triggered an antisemitic campaign in part of the British press which identified British Jews with Bolshevism. Pp. 197-229 discuss the immigrant "conscription question" which emerged during the First World War and caused anti-alien agitation in the country. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, English, 1992
F. Cass, London, England, 1992