The Jews of Wales : a history / Cai Parry-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parry-Jones, Cai, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Wales--History.

Jews.

History.

Wales.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 246 pages : map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2017]

Summary:

This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions. The author considers the impact of the Second World War on Wales's Jewish population, as well as the importance of the Welsh context in shaping the Welsh-Jewish experience. The study offers a detailed examination of the numerical decline of Wales's Jewish communities throughout the twentieth century, and is also the first to consider the situation of Wales's Jewish communities in the early twenty-first, arguing that these communities may be significantly fewer in number and smaller than in the past but they are ever evolving.

Contents:

1 Migration and Settlement 17

2 Religious and Communal Life 39

3 Evacuation, Refuge and the Second World War 65

4 Jewish and Non-Jewish Relations in Wales 88

5 Jewishness and Welshness 113

6 Decline and Endurance 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781786830937

1786830930

9781786830845

1786830841

OCLC:

965474760