East End Jewish Radicals

Alternate Titles

• Jewish Radicals: From Czarist Stetl to London Ghetto

Description

**East End Jewish Radicals, 1875–1914** is a 1975 book by historian William J. Fishman on the history of Jews in London's East End. It was published by Gerald Duckworth & Co in association with the Acton Society Trust. The American edition was published in the same year by Pantheon Books under the title **Jewish Radicals: From Czarist Stetl to London Ghetto**. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_End_Jewish_Radicals))

Description

East End Jewish Radicals is essential reading for anyone interested in Victorian and Edwardian London or the history of the Jewish community in London, labour history and the history of immigration to this country. Professor William Fishman describes London’s East End at a time of mass immigration from Eastern Europe to the shabby tenements of Stepney and Whitechapel. He describes the spread of libertarian and socialist ideals among the Jewish community culminating in the great strikes of 1889 and 1912. East End Jewish Radicals is published is republished for a new audience perhaps unaware of this forgotten part of London’s history. (Source: [Five Leaves Publications](https://fiveleaves.co.uk/product/east-end-jewish-radicals-1875-1914/))

First Sentence

'Russian Tsardom began its consistent role as a persecutor of the Eternal People when it received, by way of bequest, the vast Jewish population of disintegrated Poland.'1

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Other Editions

• Jewish radicals: from Czarist stetl to London ghettoPantheon Books1975-01-01
• East End Jewish RadicalsPaperbackFive Leaves Publications2004-10-01
• Jewish radicalsPantheon Books1975-01-01
• East End Jewish radicals, 1875-1914Duckworth, in association with the Acton Society Trust1975-01-01