The rich complexity of Britain’s Jewish population

Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety Harry Freedman

Bloomsbury, pp.368, 20

Of all the European countries that Jews have lived in, none has been so welcoming as Britain. There is a caveat: the first blood libel was in Norwich, of all places, in 1144, and after Edward I expelled us in 1290 we had to wait almost 400 years for Oliver Cromwell to ask us back.

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The rich complexity of Britain’s Jewish population

There is no single community, Harry Freedman stresses, but a multitude of voices ranging from the liberal to the ultra-orthodox

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