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Jews and Other Foreigners

Manchester and the Rescue of the Victims of European Fascism, 1933–40

Bill Williams author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:1st Sep '11

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Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of Manchester society, from Jewish communal organisations and the Zionist movement to the Christian churches, pacifist organisations and private charities, it offers a critical analysis of the factors which facilitated and limited the work of rescue and their effect on the lives of the seven or eight thousand refugees - Spanish, Italian, German, Austrian and Czech - who arrived in Manchester between 1933 and 1940.

The distinctiveness of this work is indisputable and it sets the standard for a new kind of micro-historical approach to the subject.
Jennifer Craig-Norton, Reviews in History, 01/03/2012

The book is distinguished by the exemplary thoroughness of its research. Williams displays a remarkable knowledge of Manchester Jewry, its communal institutions and organisations, its personalities, places of worship and, not least, internal divisions.

  • Short-listed for The Portico Prize for Non Fiction 2012 (UK)

ISBN: 9780719085499

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm

Weight: 785g

432 pages