Volume 42 - 2009

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Contributors to this volume Martin Sugarman, who was born and educated in Hackney and was a secondary-school teacher in Bristol and London for twenty-three years, is a graduate of Bristol University.He is now Deputy Examinations Officer a

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Contributors to this volume Raphael Loewe held the Goldsmid Chair of Hebrew at University College London. While his main research interests concern medieval and earlier biblical exegesis and Sephardic Hebrew poetry, he has also concerned

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Book Notes Stalin’s orders), but also discusses how, despite its lapses, it has become one of the cornerstones of international law, in the wake of the universal internalization of the Holocaust as the archetypal genocide. An Oxford-edu

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Jewish Historical Studies, volume 42, 2009 Contributors to this volume Michael Alpert is Emeritus Professor of the History of Spain at the University of Westminster. His interests range from the Inquisition, on which he has

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Book Notes includes capsule biographies of all Jewish MPs in a frequently entertaining package, presenting their life histories and career records in a paragraph or two. The arrangement is chronological, with, for instance, those serving

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Book Notes Soref (p. 146) with that of the Communist MP Phil Piratin (p. 108). Soref’s entry begins ‘As a white supremacist, Harold Soref was an embarrassment to the vast majority of the Jewish community’; his entry continues in thi

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Book Notes ‘demise’ – in the 1930s probably owes more to social conservatism than to religious attitudes within the new Jewish middle classes. Nor is it true that before the opening of the Jewish primary school, Calderwood Lodge, al

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Book Notes National Biography, published in 2004, after my articles appeared, and is untrue. I have never found any contemporaries who were aware of Amery’s origins, although these were often regarded as somewhat mysterious. The a

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Book Notes 1838 of his: ‘SKETCHES OF Character In Illustration of the Habits, Occupation, and Costume of the NEGRO POPULATION in the ISLAND OF JAMAICA, Drawn after Nature, and in Lithography’. This objective depiction of folklore hist

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