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British Jews in WW1
In my “speed dating session” with the alumni of the Bevis Marks synagogue, I talked about Lieutenant Frank de Pass, the first Jew to be awarded the Victoria Cross, this country’s highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy. I can confirm that he was born in London and was among 50,000 Jews who served in British and colonial forces during World War I. Their story is told in a remarkable book entitled British Jewry Book of Honour published in 1922. It has now been beautifully digitized and you can browse it here British Jewry Book of Honour.
Shylock
This link will take you to my Shylock Compilation Video. Given the relevance of ethnicity to this role, I have listed below the name and nationality/ethnicity of each actor in order of appearance:
1. Makram Khoury (Israeli Palestinian)
2. Al Pacino (Italian American)
3. Jacob Cohen (Israeli Jewish)
4. Jonathan Pryce (British Welsh)
5. Bob Peck (British English)
Further Reading
If you’d like to read more about some of the stories I touched upon during the tour, here’s a selection to get you started:
History Extra – The Jews of medieval England
Bevis Marks Synagogue website
Patricia Skinner (ed) Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012)
Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews, Volume 1, Finding the Words: 1000BCE-1492CE (London: The Bodley Head, 2013)
Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora: a History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The Royal Doctors, 1485–1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001)
A. Weiner, “A Note on Jewish Doctors in England in the Reign of Henry IV” The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 18, No. 1 (Oct., 1905), pp. 141-145
Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink (a novel set during the resettlement period)
(San Francisco: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)Tripadvisor
My ability to sell tours and raise funds for charity is helped by my profile on Tripadvisor where I am currently ranked at #1 out of more than 1500 tours in London on the strength of over 400 reviews. If you are among those kind reviewers, please accept my thanks. If you haven’t posted a review, please think about doing so (for a review to be published, the reviewer must be signed into an account at Facebook, Google or Tripadvisor itself at the time of posting). Here’s the link Ian Fagelson Tripadvisor Reviews.
British Jews in WW1
In my “speed dating session” with the alumni of the Bevis Marks synagogue, I talked about Lieutenant Frank de Pass, the first Jew to be awarded the Victoria Cross, this country’s highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy. I can confirm that he was born in London and was among 50,000 Jews who served in British and colonial forces during World War I. Their story is told in a remarkable book entitled British Jewry Book of Honour published in 1922. It has now been beautifully digitized and you can browse it here British Jewry Book of Honour.
Shylock
This link will take you to my Shylock Compilation Video. Given the relevance of ethnicity to this role, I have listed below the name and nationality/ethnicity of each actor in order of appearance:
1. Makram Khoury (Israeli Palestinian)
2. Al Pacino (Italian American)
3. Jacob Cohen (Israeli Jewish)
4. Jonathan Pryce (British Welsh)
5. Bob Peck (British English)
Further Reading
If you’d like to read more about some of the stories I touched upon during the tour, here’s a selection to get you started:
History Extra – The Jews of medieval England
Bevis Marks Synagogue website
Patricia Skinner (ed) Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012)
Simon Schama, The Story of the Jews, Volume 1, Finding the Words: 1000BCE-1492CE (London: The Bodley Head, 2013)
Anthony Julius, Trials of the Diaspora: a History of Anti-Semitism in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Elizabeth Lane Furdell, The Royal Doctors, 1485–1714: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001)
A. Weiner, “A Note on Jewish Doctors in England in the Reign of Henry IV” The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 18, No. 1 (Oct., 1905), pp. 141-145
Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink (a novel set during the resettlement period) (San Francisco: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Kindertransport documentary
Sir Erich Reich (The Boy in the Statue)
The Windermere Children Movie
The Windermere Children (documentary) |
