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Horns and dilemmas: Jewish evacuees in Britain during the Second World War

Horns and dilemmas: Jewish evacuees in Britain during the Second World War
Horns and dilemmas: Jewish evacuees in Britain during the Second World War
Although only a short-lived experience, evacuation during the Second World War has left a profound impact on millions of people in Britain. In some ways British Jewry shared the common problems of evacuation created by class differences and a fundamental clash between town and country. Nevertheless, Jews, because of their particular religious needs and a strong tradition of anti-Semitism in Britain, had unique experiences as evacuees during the war. Indeed evacuation had a profound importance for the shaping of post-war British Jewry - scarring those who suffered anti-Semitic hostility but also assimilating many at the cost of their religious and cultural identity.
0261-9288
273-291
Kushner, Tony
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Kushner, Tony
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Kushner, Tony (1988) Horns and dilemmas: Jewish evacuees in Britain during the Second World War. Immigrants and Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora, 7 (3), 273-291. (doi:10.1080/02619288.1988.9974693).

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Although only a short-lived experience, evacuation during the Second World War has left a profound impact on millions of people in Britain. In some ways British Jewry shared the common problems of evacuation created by class differences and a fundamental clash between town and country. Nevertheless, Jews, because of their particular religious needs and a strong tradition of anti-Semitism in Britain, had unique experiences as evacuees during the war. Indeed evacuation had a profound importance for the shaping of post-war British Jewry - scarring those who suffered anti-Semitic hostility but also assimilating many at the cost of their religious and cultural identity.

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Published date: 1988
Organisations: History

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Local EPrints ID: 398486
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/398486
ISSN: 0261-9288
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