Beschreibung:
'In the contemporary British context, 'heritage' is a highly politicized and contentious term', Tony Kusher writes in his introduction to this edited collection of essays on the subject of Jewish heritage, thus setting the tone for a book as much interested in the preservation as it is the understanding of this culture.
1. Heritage and Ethnicity: An Introduction 2.Dual Heritage or Dual of Heritages?Englishness and Jewishness in the Heritage Industry 3. Englishness and Medieval Anglo-Jewy 4. The Marginalization of Early-Modern Anglo-Jewish History 5. The End of the 'Anglo-Jewish Progress Show'. Representations of the Jewish East End, 1887-1987 6. Carers and Servers of the Jewish Community: The Marginalized Heritage of Jewish Women in Britain 7. Heritage and Community: The Rescue of Manchester's Jewish Past 8. Squandered Heritage: Jewish Buildings in Britain 9. English Heritage, Statutory Control and Jewish Buildings 10. Assimilation by Design: London Synagogues in the Nineteenth Century