{"product_id":"jews-in-nineteenth-century-britain-charity-community-and-religion-1830-1880-paperback","title":"Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Charity, Community and Religion, 1830-1880 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlysa Levene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines Jewish communities in Britain in an era of immense social, economic and religious change: from the acceleration of industrialisation to the end of the first phase of large-scale Jewish immigration from Europe.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUsing the 1851 census alongside extensive charity and community records, \u003ci\u003eJews in Nineteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/i\u003e tests the impact of migration, new types of working and changes in patterns of worship on the family and community life of seven of the fastest-growing industrial towns in Britain. Communal life for the Jews living there (over a third of whom had been born overseas) was a constantly shifting balance between the generation of wealth and respectability, and the risks of inundation by poor newcomers. But while earlier studies have used this balance as a backdrop for the story of individual Jewish communities, this book highlights the interactions between the people who made them up. At the core of the book is the question of what membership of the 'imagined community' of global Jewry meant: how it helped those who belonged to it, how it affected where they lived and who they lived with, the jobs that they did and the wealth or charity that they had access to.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBy stitching together patterns of residence, charity and worship, Alysa Levene is here able to reveal that religious and cultural bonds had vital functions both for making ends meet and for the formation of identity in a period of rapid demographic, religious and cultural change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlysa Levene \u003c\/b\u003eis Reader in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Childhood of the Poor: Welfare in Eighteenth-Century London \u003c\/i\u003e(2012), \u003ci\u003eFrom Cradle to Grave: Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales \u003c\/i\u003e(2011; with M. Powell, J. Stewart and B. Taylor) \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800\u003c\/i\u003e (2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786027139360,"sku":"9781350201767","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1dc2fc603787962ad7901b2083e75fd8.webp?v=1780626175","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/jews-in-nineteenth-century-britain-charity-community-and-religion-1830-1880-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}