Abstract
ABSTRACT Using a case study from Dundee, this article scrutinises historians’ assumptions about the nature of links between the major British-Jewish centres and ‘the periphery’. Utilising a cache of letters addressed to the Chief Rabbi concerning the provision of a trained Jewish butcher (shochet) in 1883, Abrams considers the Jewish community of Dundee in northeast Scotland as an example of Jews at a temporal, organisational, cultural and geographical frontier. The episode to which these letters refer tests the assumption of Anglo-Jewish historians that the provincial communities were considered, and considered themselves, subordinate to the regularly constituted ecclesiastical authorities in London.
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