British Jewry and the Holocaust
With a new Introduction
Richard Bolchover
Second edition

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'Admirable . . . it works splendidly well . . . [an] impressive, noble, and genuinely important book.'
Andrew Chandler, English Historical Review

'This is absorbing, frightening, upsetting, essential reading. If Anglo-Jewry is to acquire a conviction about its values, this period of history must be re-examined; those institutions which so failed fellow-Jews must be reassessed; routes to influence within the Jewish community must be questioned. Finally, those who still remember those days must be asked, before it is too late, why so little was done.'
Julia Neuberger, The Times

How did British Jewry respond to the Holocaust, how prominent was the Holocaust on the communal agenda, and what does this response tell us about the values, politics, fears, and identity of the Anglo-Jewish community? This book studies the priorities of that community, and thereby seeks to analyse the attitudes and philosophies which informed actions. It paints a picture of Anglo-Jewish life and its reactions to a wide range of matters in the external, non-Jewish world. For this paperback, the author has added a new Introduction summarizing research in the field since the book’s first appearance.

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Richard Bolchover studied at University College London and at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He was a Rotary International Foundation Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jersualem. He is now a director of Close Fund Management Ltd, in London.

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