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Introduction: Between the East End and East Africa: Rethinking Images of ‘the Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture

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Abstract

On Friday, 17 May 1900, London was awash with some of the wildest celebrations the capital had ever witnessed. For months the public had been following the events in Mafeking, a small British town in the Cape Colony, South Africa, which was besieged by the Boers in October 1899, shortly after their declaration of war on the British Empire. The siege lasted 217 days, and when news reached London that British forces had finally liberated the garrison and the civilians, thousands took to the streets, cheering, dancing, and drinking.1

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages1-27
Number of pages27
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2009

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
ISSN (Print)2634-6494
ISSN (Electronic)2634-6508

Keywords

  • Alien Invasion
  • Jewish History
  • Jewish Immigration
  • Jewish Question
  • Royal Commission

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • History
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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