THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD : GREAT BRITAIN
MacMillan Press London & New York, 1996. Item #39755
1st edition. Original cloth with dust jacket. 8vo, . 9 x 6 inches, viii + 539 pages. " A Jewish community has existed in Great Britain since the time of William the Conqueror, although in 1290 it was expelled . Re-admitted by Oliver Cromwell, the Anglo-Jewish community has produced such notables as Benjamin Disraeli, Moses Montefiore, Herbert Samuel, Chaim Weitzmann, the English Rothschilds, and a host of [others]. This wide-ranging and controversial history of the Jews in Great Britain is the first scholarly book to survey the whole of the Anglo-Jewish history from the mediaeval time to the present. Professor Rubinstein vigorously disputes the idea of anti-semitism as virtually endemic . Arguing instead that Britain's tradition has always been very philo-semitic. " (from the front flap) . Fair amount of pencil notes in margins, date stamp on front end paper (review copy) , sticker on dust jacket spine, Good Condition overall, Very Good dust jacket. (AC-6-2).
Price: $100.00