Who are the Jews now? Memories of the Holocaust in Georgia Brown’s East End, 1968
Who are the Jews now? Memories of the Holocaust in Georgia Brown’s East End, 1968
In Spring 1968 the singer and actress Georgia Brown returned to the East End streets of her youth in order to film an episode of the BBC television documentary series One Pair of Eyes, entitled ‘Who Are the Cockneys, Now?’ (BBC1, tx. 17 August 1968) Directed by Anthony Searle, the programme set out to examine how the area had changed since the end of the Second World War, focusing specifically on the different ethnicities and questioning what the future might hold for both the area and its inhabitants. The programme in fact tended to foreground questions around the Jewish population and its past, with Brown arguing that the newly arrived Jewish immigrant population of the 1890s-1910s had been able to flourish thanks largely to the support network provided by an already established and integrated Jewish community. She used this as the opportunity to offer her own view on contemporary Jewish life in Britain, arguing that the Jewish community needed to be more integrated and less isolated, and more willing to embrace closer co-operation between minorities, drawing parallels between contemporary protests against immigration with the anti-Jewish prejudice of the 1930s.
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Wayne State University Press
Jordan, James
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July 2019
Jordan, James
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Jordan, James
(2019)
Who are the Jews now? Memories of the Holocaust in Georgia Brown’s East End, 1968.
In,
Alba, Avril and Gilbert, Shirli
(eds.)
Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World.
Wayne State University Press, .
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In Spring 1968 the singer and actress Georgia Brown returned to the East End streets of her youth in order to film an episode of the BBC television documentary series One Pair of Eyes, entitled ‘Who Are the Cockneys, Now?’ (BBC1, tx. 17 August 1968) Directed by Anthony Searle, the programme set out to examine how the area had changed since the end of the Second World War, focusing specifically on the different ethnicities and questioning what the future might hold for both the area and its inhabitants. The programme in fact tended to foreground questions around the Jewish population and its past, with Brown arguing that the newly arrived Jewish immigrant population of the 1890s-1910s had been able to flourish thanks largely to the support network provided by an already established and integrated Jewish community. She used this as the opportunity to offer her own view on contemporary Jewish life in Britain, arguing that the Jewish community needed to be more integrated and less isolated, and more willing to embrace closer co-operation between minorities, drawing parallels between contemporary protests against immigration with the anti-Jewish prejudice of the 1930s.
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In preparation date: October 2016
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