An East End Legacy: Essays in Memory of William J Fishman / Edition 1

by Colin Holmes, Anne J Kershen

Overview

An East End Legacy is a memorial volume for William J Fishman, whose seminal works on the East End of London in the late nineteenth century have served as a vital starting point for much of the later work on the various complex web of relations in that quarter of the capital.

A variety of leading scholars utilise the insight of Fishman’s work to present a wide range of insights into the historical characters and events of the East End. The book’s themes include local politics; anti-alienism, anti-Semitism and war; and culture and society. In pursuing these topics, the volume examines in great depth the social, political, religious and cultural changes that have taken place in the area over the past 120 years, many of which remain both significant and relevant. In addition, it illustrates East London’s links with other parts of the world including Europe and America and those territories "beyond the oceans."

This book will prove valuable reading for researchers and readers interested in Victorian and twentieth century British history, politics and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138123182
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/23/2017
Series:	Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Colin Holmes is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Anne J. Kershen is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Migration,Queen Mary University of London and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Lord Trevor Smith

Introduction

Colin Holmes and Anne J Kershen

1. From East End 1888 to East End 2008: A Journey in the Life of an Inner London Borough

Anne J Kershen

Part 1: Politics

2. Anarchism, Jews, Relief - and Photography? Behind the Lens and behind the Scenes, 1892-1946

Michael Berkowitz

3. The Jewish Health Organisation of Great Britain in the East End, 1923-1946

Todd Endelman

4. The East End and the Moral Foundations of Bill Fishman's Libertarian Socialism

Wayne Parsons

Part 2: Anti-Alienism/Anti-Semitism and War

5. The Reubens Brothers: Jews, Crime and the East London Connection, 1887-1911

Colin Holmes

6. Jews and Bombs: The Making of a Metropolitan Myth, 1916-1945

Jerry White

7. Winning the Battle, But What About the War? Cable Street in Context

Daniel Tilles

Part 3: Culture and Society

8. Whitechapel's Yiddish Opera House: The Rise and Fall of the Feinman Yiddish People's Threatre

David Mazower

9. The Metropolitan Rhythm of Street Life: A Socio-spatial Analysis of Synagogues and Churches in Nineteenth Century Whitechapel

Laura Vaughan and Kerstin Sailer

10. Doing the East End Walk, Oi! Heritage, Ownership and Belonging

Tony Kushner

Afterword

Colin Holmes and Anne J Kershen