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Article: The Jews of Britain 1656 to 2000.(Book Reviews)
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The Jews of Britain 1656 to 2000, by Todd M. Endelman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 347 pp. $22.50.
This is a superb history of the Jews of Britain from the time of their readmission to the kingdom in the seventeenth century to the present. Through their history the Jews have only been a tiny proportion of the British population, yet they have had an importance beyond their numbers not only in their achievements but also as a means of revealing how that society functions. As so frequently is the case, and as Endelman splendidly recapitulates in his Conclusion, the accomplishments and failures of the story tend to derive from the same source: the ...