Pimlott, William Marshall;
(2022)
Yiddish in Britain: Immigration, Culture and Politics, 1896-1910.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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This thesis concerns the growth and transformation of the Yiddish press in Britain between 1896-1910, with particular attention to politics and literature. At the end of the 19th Century, the Yiddish press expanded in Britain - this dissertation argues that this change intensified the diversity of political and cultural horizons for immigrant Jews. The press had hitherto consisted mainly of the party organs of small radical groupings. At the beginning of the century there began to develop both a mainstream and commercial press alongside iterations of a more diverse radical press. Yiddish journalists within this new “orthodox” or “commercial” Yiddish press criticised institutional Anglo-Jewry, preferring a diverse politics of liberalism and Jewish nationalism. The new broader Yiddish radical press, Social Democrats as well as Socialist Zionists, alongside the better known Anarchist groupings, went further and advanced ideologies stressing Jewish liberation and regeneration. Yiddish literary creation in Britain, more extensive, complex and challenging than previously accounted for, and intensely inspired by modern literature from Eastern Europe and America, found inspiration in the critique of British Jewish immigrant life. This dissertation refocuses attention away from “anglicisation” towards countervailing and contemporaneous processes which saw immigrant Jews construct a new Jewish culture and politics in Britain on their own terms. Tracing the activity of this intelligentsia, however transient, also begins to develop an understanding of the contribution Yiddish culture in Britain played in the development of modern Jewish politics and culture internationally.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Yiddish in Britain: Immigration, Culture and Politics, 1896-1910 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Hebrew and Jewish Studies UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146427 |
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