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History of Judaism in the UK, Philosemitism, and Antisemitism

Almog, S. Nationalism & Antisemitism in Modern Europe, 1815-1945. Oxford [England]; New York: Pergamon Press, 1990.

Battini, Mechele. Socialism of Fools: Capitalism and Modern Anti-Semitism. Trans. Noor Mazhar and Isabella Verganno. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Reviewed by Ian Buruma in the July 2016 TLS: “Upping the antis: How anti-capitalism and anti-Semitism combine.”

Cooper, John. Pride versus Prejudice: Jewish Doctors and Lawyers in England, 1890-1990 Oxford; Portland, Ore.: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2003.

Crome, Andrew. Christian Zionism and English National Identity 1600-1850. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Dekel, Michael. The Universal Jew: Masculinity, Modernity, and the Zionist Moment. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2010., [has chapters on the fin-de-siècle , the Bildungsroman, and George Eliot].

Heng, Geraldine. England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Huscroft, Richard. Expulsion: England's Jewish Solution. Stroud: Tempus, 2006.

The Fate of England's Jews [in 1290] had as much to do with financial expediency as with religious intolerance. — Eliane Glaser, TLS (11 August 2006).

Glaser, Eliane, Judaism without Jews: Philosemitism and Christian Polemic in Early Modern England. Basingstoke [England]; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Jews, Money, Myth. Eds. Joanne Rosenthal and Marc Volovici. London: Jewish Museum and Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, 2019.

The Jews and British romanticism: Politics, Religion, Culture. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Glassman, Bernard. Anti-Semitic Stereotypes without Jews: Images of the Jews in England, 1290-1700. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975

The Jew in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: between the East End and East Africa. Edited by Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.

Julius, Anthony. Trials of the Diaspora: a History of Anti-semitism in England. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Kokosalakis, N. Ethnic Identity and Religion: Tradition and Change in Liverpool Jewry. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, c1982.

Ragussis, Michael, Figures of Conversion: "the Jewish Question" and English national Identity . Durham: Duke University Press, 1995

Rubinstein, William D., Michael A. Jolles and Hilary L. Rubinstein. The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011,

The European Context

Bartov, Omer. Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2019.

Hagen, William W. Anti-Jewish Violence in Poland, 1914-1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Stanislawski, Michael. “The Daily Life of Genocide: Pogroms and a ‘Lacrymose’ View of Jewish History.” Times Literary Supplement. (1 March 2019): 11-13.

Unowsky, Daniel. The Plunder: The Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia. Stanford University Press, 2019.

Zipperstein, Steven J. Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. London: Liveright, 2019.

Literature

Baker, William. George Eliot and Judaism. Salzburg: Universität Salzburg, 1975; reprinted without author’s permission by the Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

Baker, William, and Jeanette Shumaker. Bernard Kops: Fantasist, London Jew, Apocalyptic Humorist. Madison, NJ.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014.

Baker, William, and Jeanette Shumake. Jewish Writing: A Reference and Critical Guide to Jewish Writing in the UK. 2 Brighton, Sussex: Edward Everett Root, 2019.

Dellamora, Richard. Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.

Dwor, Richa. Jewish Feeling: Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-century Jewish Women's Writing. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1996.

Klein, Charlotte Lea. “The Portrait of the Contemporary Jew in English and German Fiction and Drama from 1830 to 1880.” M.A thesis. London University, 1963.

Klein, Charlotte Lea. “The Portrait of the Contemporary Jew in English and German Fiction and Drama (1830-1933).” Ph.D thesis. London University, 1967

“This mammoth erudite thesis is the classic work but probably only available at the Senate House Library repository” — William Baker


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