Abstract
The inter-war years witnessed dramatic social and cultural change in London; higher wages, better transport and cheaper entertainments opened up commercial leisure to the masses; including second-generation Jewish adolescents. Both Jewish and gentile communal leaders feared that increased adolescent autonomy and regular interaction between the sexes during leisure time would heighten sexual awareness and experimentation. The Anglo-Jewish response was to use youth clubs to mould and control young people and their sexual identity. This article examines the extent to which leisure was responsible for increasing Jewish adolescent sexual precocity and how successful Jewish youth clubs were in controlling juvenile behaviour.
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