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There was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Jew...: Immigrants and Minorities in Britain*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

David Feldman
David Feldman
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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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Historiographical Reviews
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The Historical Journal , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 185 - 199
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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References

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11 For examples see the Royal commission on alien immigration, pp. 1903, ix, qq. 20, 278, 14, 195, and Fishman, William J., East End Jewish radicals, 1875–1914 (London, 1975), pp. 303–4.Google Scholar

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14 This quotation is from a propaganda leaflet published by the Loyal Jewish Lodge of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Friendly Society. A copy of this leaflet is in my possession.

15 The facts of repatriation have been presented in Lipman, V. D., A century of social service, 1859–1959: the Jewish Board of Guardians (London, 1959), pp. 94–7.Google Scholar

16 Lipman, A century of social service, is a scholarly but essentially celebratory account. Since then the subject has either been omitted or drowned in a sea of philanthropic endeavour. See Garrard, J. A., The English and immigration (London, 1971), pp. 96–7Google Scholar; Gainer, B., The alien invasion, (London, 1972), pp. 55–6; Gartner, The Jewish immigrant, pp. 54–6.Google Scholar