@inbook{bf4e20eb04c54005af1c3b51f66f6433,
title = "Introduction: Between the East End and East Africa: Rethinking Images of {\textquoteleft}the Jew{\textquoteright} in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture",
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",
keywords = "Alien Invasion, Jewish History, Jewish Immigration, Jewish Question, Royal Commission",
author = "Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2009, Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman.",
year = "2009",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1057/9780230594371\_1",
language = "English",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "1--27",
booktitle = "Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture",
}