Review: “We are not only English Jews – we are Jewish Englishmen”: The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Identity, 1840–1880

Todd Endelman

doi:10.14324/111.444.jhs.2021v52.024

Abstract

Review: “We are not only English Jews – we are Jewish Englishmen”: The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Identity, 1840–1880

Highlights

The subject of Abosch-Jacobson’s awkwardly titled book is “the formation of an Anglo-Jewish communal identity” (p. xvi) in the period between 1840 and 1880
The notion that Englishness inflected the Jewishness of English Jews in both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a well-established theme in Anglo-Jewish historiography
There is, a dimension to Abosch-Jacobson’s argument that, if not new, has not always featured this explicitly in previous studies. She is concerned with communal identity, that package of assumptions that binds both leaders and followers in a common enterprise

Summary

Introduction

The subject of Abosch-Jacobson’s awkwardly titled book is “the formation of an Anglo-Jewish communal identity” (p. xvi) in the period between 1840 and 1880. ‘“We are English Jews – we are Jewish Englishmen”: The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Identity, 1840–1880’. Peer Review: This article has been peer reviewed through the journal’s standard editorial peer review. Open Access: Jewish Historical Studies is a peer-reviewed open access journal.

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