Preface
This volume marks two radical policy changes. Firstly, the Society has decided to attempt to publish a volume of Jewish Historical Society each year instead of every two years in the hope that this will bring in a greater number of contributions of quality and attract more readers. Secondly, after thirty-five volumes in a page-size introduced in 1895, we nave adopted a more conven? tional format, which will enable us to reduce production costs without sacri? ficing quality, and make the volume look more appetizing to general readers. For similar reasons the volume numbers will now appear in Arabic rather than Roman numerals.
The year 2000 saw a major change in the administration of the Society. Mr Cyril Drukker resigned his post as our Honorary Secretary on reaching his eightieth birthday and so did Professor Raphael Loewe as Chairman of the Executive Committee. Our Administrator, Mrs Jeanette Cannon resigned for
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Other articles within the volume
- The British Labour Party and Palestine, 1917-1948
- Bertram B. Benas: forgotten Zionist
- Bernhard Baron: tobacco and philanthropy
- Revd Solomon Lyon of Cambridge, 1755-1820
- Preface
- The Institution of halukkah: a historical review
- Health and medical care of the Jewish poor in the East End of London, 1880-1914
- The Zion Muleteers of Gallipoli, March 1915—May 1916
Other articles within the volume
- A supplement to ‘Breaking the codes: Jewish personnel at Bletchley Park’
- The look of the Irish: Irish Jews and the Zionist project, 1900—48
- The early French connection to Israel
- Sir Mark Sykes: British diplomat and a convert to Zionism
- Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild (1840—1915), the last of the shtadlanim
- Naphtali Hart Myers (1711-1788): New Yorker and Londoner
- Some eighteenth-century refugees from Brazil
- Jewish funerary architecture in Britain and Ireland since 1656
- António Fernandes Carvajal’s grandmother
- The denunciation of Peter Freire
- River Jews: medieval Jews along the Thames as a microcosm of Anglo-Jewry
- Jewish presence in, and absence from, Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- Israel Finestein, historian of Anglo-Jewry
- Preface
- Preface
- The Institution of halukkah: a historical review
- Health and medical care of the Jewish poor in the East End of London, 1880-1914
- The Zion Muleteers of Gallipoli, March 1915—May 1916
Other articles within the volume
- Jewish personnel at Bletchley Park
- Reseach note on Dr Hector Nunes, Spanish agent
- George Berthold Samuelson (1889-1947): Britain’s Jewish film pioneer*
- Dr Joseph Hart Myers (1758-1823) and his family: public prominence and private losses
- The Bevin enigma: what motivated Ernest Bevin’s opposition to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine
- Books and bookmen: the Cambridge teachers of Rabbinics 1 866-1 971
- Hybridity in a medieval key: the paradox of Jewish participation in self-representative political processes
- Anglo-Jewry in 1851: the Great Exhibition and political emancipation*
- “A Menace to Jews Seen If Hitler Wins”: British and American press comment on German antisemitism 1918-1933
- Berlin and Popper between nation and empire: diaspora, cosmopolitanism and Jewish life*
- Yad Chaim Weizmann and the Westernness of Israel*
- Sport or Shul? Physical recreation, Anglo-Jewry and the Jewish Sabbath, ca. 1890-1939
- In Memoriam: Raphael James Loewe 1919-2011
- Introducing the new edition of Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England
- Preface
- The Institution of halukkah: a historical review
- Health and medical care of the Jewish poor in the East End of London, 1880-1914
- The Zion Muleteers of Gallipoli, March 1915—May 1916
Other articles within the volume
- Gerry Black’s Jewish CV
- An excerpt from Gerry Black, “The Right School in the Right Place: The History of the Stepney Jewish School, 1864—2013”
- The Wartime “Special Relationship”, 1941—45: Isaiah Berlin, Freya Stark and Mandate Palestine
- The significance of Meier Leon’s “Yigdal” melody as a link between Jewish and Christian hymnody in eighteenth-century London
- Robert of Leicester’s treatise on the Hebrew computus and the study of Jewish knowledge in medieval England
- “””The Messiah promised in the Sacred Scripture came a long time ago””: the Cambridge Platonists’ attitudes towards the readmission of the Jews, 1655—56″
- Glasgow’s “Department of Psycho-Semitics”, 1940—60: the Jewish thought of Joseph Schorstein and Karl Abenheimer
- The Jewish “Circumcision Scandal” in Edwardian Britain
- The Jews of early St John’s Wood*
- Preface
- The institution of halukkah: a historical review
- Preface
- The Institution of halukkah: a historical review
- Health and medical care of the Jewish poor in the East End of London, 1880-1914
- The Zion Muleteers of Gallipoli, March 1915—May 1916
