The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991

by David Cesarani

• ISBN13: 9780521019132
• ISBN10: 0521019133
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Founded in 1841, The Jewish Chronicle is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. A force for change, a forum for debate and a shaper of Jewish identity, it has played a central part in the development of modern Anglo-Jewry. More than just a mirror of Anglo-Jewish mores, registering waves of immigration and social change, The Jewish Chronicle has been an active player in historical events. Its editors have intervened decisively in communal history and debated with British statesmen. No historian can understand the inner life of British Jews without looking at the social reports, the sports column, the arts and cultural coverage and the advertising that the paper has carried. This book, written by a noted historian of Jewish social affairs, gives an insight into the working of a newspaper, the struggles between editors and directors, and the boardroom politics. It is the story of a publishing adventure that became an institution and helped to shape the destiny of an entire community.

Table of Contents

Plates between pages 146 and 147
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(1)
Origins and pioneers, 1841--1855	1	(31)
Jacob Franklin and Isaac Vallentine, 1841--1844	1	(13)
Joseph Mitchell and Marcus Bresslau, 1844--1855	14	(14)
Foreign intelligence, 1841--1855	28	(4)
Defining an identity: the Jewish Chronicle and mid-Victorian Anglo-Jewry, 1855--1878	32	(35)
Abraham Benisch, 1855--1868	32	(8)
Foreign coverage, the Mortara Affair and Palestine, 1855--1868	40	(5)
Jews, religion and culture in mid-Victorian Britain	45	(5)
Michael Henry and the perils of Liberalism, 1868--1875	50	(10)
Benisch redivivus and the Eastern Question, 1875--1878	60	(7)
The era of Asher Myers and Israel Davis, 1878--1906	67	(36)
Asher Myers, the Russian Crisis and the immigration debate	67	(8)
Anglo-Jewry and the immigrants	75	(7)
The rise of modern anti-Semitism and Zionism	82	(6)
The high noon of Anglo-Jewry	88	(7)
Israel Davis and the struggle over the Aliens Act, 1902--1906	95	(8)
The hegemony of Leopold Greenberg, 1907--1931	103	(39)
The new Jewish journalism, 1907--1914	103	(11)
Doing its bit: the Jewish Chronicle in the First World War	114	(8)
The Jewish Chronicle and the Zionist Movement, 1907--1931	122	(11)
Anglo-Jewry between inner city and suburb, 1918--1931	133	(9)
Discordant interlude: J. M. Rich and Mortimer Epstein, 1932--1936	142	(16)
Ivan Greenberg and the crisis years, 1937--1946	158	(35)
The deluge begins, 1937--1939	158	(7)
The Second World War and the Holocaust	165	(18)
The Jewish Chronicle and the struggle for Palestine, 1937--1946	183	(10)
The post-war era: J. M. Shaftesley and David Kessler, 1946--1958	193	(17)
The establishment of Israel, 1946--1948	193	(3)
Reconstruction and the emergence from austerity, 1946--1958	196	(8)
Covering the Jewish world, 1946--1958	204	(6)
The Jewish Chronicle under William Frankel, 1958--1977	210	(26)
Angry young men and Anglo-Jewry, 1958--1967	210	(16)
Israel, the Six-Day War and after, 1967--1977	226	(10)
The Jewish press in a divided community: Geoffrey Paul, 1977--1990	236	(18)
Conclusion	248	(6)
Notes	254	(45)
Bibliography	299	(16)
Index	315