Abstract: The Jewish press in England took root during the 1840s and 1850s, when the Jewish population was becoming more geographically dispersed and heterogeneous than ever before. British Jewry was divided spatially as well as socially, and sundered by controversy over the Reform congregation and conduct of the emancipation campaign. These developments, which had their parallel throughout the Jewish centres of western and central Europe, resulted from the dissolution of the traditional Jewish community. But the ending of the kehillah did not lead to the disappearance of the Jews as a distinct group. The emancipation and post-emancipation periods saw the reformulation of Jewish identity and the creation of new institutions by which it could be maintained and transmitted.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-03-03
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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