Jewish Affairs

South Manchester Jewry

South Manchester Jewry

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(Author: David Ariel Sher, Vol. 73, No. 3, Chanukah 2018)             “I would like to live in Manchester, England,” Mark Twain once declared, “The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.” Walking through the Manchester Art Gallery on Mosley St., viewing magnificently funereal Mancunian
Uprooted and uncompensated: the mistreatment of ‘Russian’ Jews by Perfidious Albion during and after the Anglo-Boer War

Uprooted and uncompensated: the mistreatment of ‘Russian’ Jews by Perfidious Albion during and after the Anglo-Boer War

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(Author: Richard Mendelsohn, Vol 74, #2, Rosh Hashanah, 2019)   2019 marks the 120th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). While it was by no means a ‘Jewish War’, despite the accusations of some hostile English commentators like JAHobson, there was nevertheless