Anglo-Jewry since 1066 place, locality and memory /
Tony Kushner.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2009.
- 1 online resource (ix, 274 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Placing the 'local' -- Wessex tales/Yiddisher spiels -- Winchester : constructing the city of memories -- Point of contestation : Jews in Portsmouth during the long eighteenth century -- Jewish emancipation and after : locality, brotherhood and the nature of tolerance -- Settlement and migration from the 1850s to 1914 -- Historicising the invisible : transmigrancy, memory and local identities -- Memory at the margins, matter out of place : hidden narratives of Jewish settlement and movement in the inter-war years.
This history of Anglo-Jewry covers medieval, early modern and modern periods. The book puts emphasis on the construction of place identity between local, national and global identities.