The Jewish Experience of the First World War
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 41340516
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-54896-2
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-54895-5
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This ground-breaking edited volume (The Jewish Experience of the First World War) represents the first attempt in any language to explore Jewish participation in the First World War and the wider contribution of Jews and Jewish communities to the 1914-18 war effort. Importantly it examines and evaluates the range of Jewish experiences across the geography of participating nations and regions, as well as post-war memories and impacts. The essays gathered together also explore ways in which Jewish communities across Europe and the wider world interpreted and remembered the ‘war to end all wars’, exploring the social and political phenomena that combined to the make the First World War a key turning point in the Jewish experience of the twentieth century. The project was entirely devised by Madigan and his co-editor Rueveni, who sought the contributions from a range of international scholars, guided and edited those contributions, and in addition to co-authoring the Introduction (pp. 1-16), made significant contributions themselves. Madigan’s own chapter - 'Thou Hast Given Us Home and Freedom, Mother England’: Anglo-Jewish Gratitude, Patriotism, and Service During and After the First World War’ (pp. 307-33) - draws on original and detailed research from a diverse range of printed primary and archival sources to make a major contribution to the highly elliptical historiography on Anglo-Jewish responses to the war. In brief, it demonstrates that whilst there was remarkable pro-war consensus among Anglo-Jewish clergy, journalists and intellectuals, and whilst English Jews made a very significant contribution to the British war effort, this did not prevent the emergence of a very political and, in some ways, quite novel form of British antisemitism during the war years. This anti-Jewish sentiment increased in intensity in the immediate post-war period and informed the tone of Jewish memorialisation of the dead.
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