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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
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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Historiographical Reviews
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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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