British Jews

Family Romance
Jean Strouse’s new book shines a light on John Singer Sargent’s most important but largely forgotten Jewish patrons, the Wertheimers
byElroy Rosenberg
The Moon People: Assimilation and the Jewish Literary Transvestite
A review of Adam Thirlwell’s sumptuous, quasi-feminist time-travel novel, ‘The Future Future’
byMarco Roth
My Punk Bar Mitzvah Party
I tried to make it work. But I was upstaged.
byRoger Bennett
Louis Jacobs, a Man for Our Time
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, finding new meaning in the work of the great British theologian
byElliot Cosgrove
A Jewish School’s Muslim Students
In England, Birmingham’s King David Primary School has a kosher kitchen, Hanukkah celebrations, and an Orthodox rabbi leading religious education—for mostly non-Jewish pupils
byAaron Drapkin
The British Jews Who Want to Go Back to Germany
With open anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, and Brexit looming, some British Jews are applying for passports to Germany and other European countries their parents fled
byVladislav Davidzon
Russia, My Homeland
I knew it was out there somewhere
byHoward Jacobson
Election Watch: The Jewish Women Leading the Fight Against Anti-Semitism in Britain
The Labour Party’s Queen Esthers are fighting gales of abuse while hoping to save their island on Thursday from Jeremy Corbyn and his army of anti-Semitic trolls
byDavid Patrikarakos
Down and Out in Yidsbury
How I sat out the Vietnam War in an English department in Manchester, England, only to come home to another battle in New York
byJonah Raskin
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hebrew Poet
The Romantic poet’s underappreciated collaboration with the pioneering Hebrew scholar Hyman Hurwitz made him more of a Hebraist than most readers know
byLilach Naishtat Bornstein
The Catholic Priest Who Became an Orthodox Jew
Before modern conversion was widespread, Abraham Carmel, a former Anglican turned Catholic, dove into Judaism with a desire to teach its tenets, a disdain for liberalism, and a willingness to criticize the leadership that resisted his entry into the faith
byShalom Goldman
Fighting for the Future in Leeds
As the Jewish population in this northern English city shrinks, locals hope to entice newcomers with cultural events, community involvement, and a reasonable cost of living
byJosh Jacobs
British Student Union Religion Survey Leaves Out Judaism… Again
TheNational Union of Students, for the second time in as many tries, is apologizing once again for the omission
byJesse Bernstein
A Second Chance for a Jewish Education
As a child, I hated the classes at my synagogue’s cheder. Now I send my own children there—and I’m falling in love with Sunday school for the first time.
byOlivia Gordon
Bubbe vs. Bubbe
My boyfriend’s proper English grandmother was nothing like the fast-walking, loud-talking grandmother I’d grown up with—or was she?
byJudy Batalion
Poll: Jews in Britain Are Viewed Favorably
A new study from pollster YouGov paints a comparatively positive picture of the way Jews are perceived in the U.K. despite increasing tension in the region
byEylon Aslan-Levy
Farewell, Old Chaps. Shalom, Olim.
British Jews making aliyah aren’t part of a trend: they’re bucking it
byEylon Aslan-Levy
Crisis of Confidence for British Jewry
Britain’s Jews cope with anti-Semitic backlash triggered by Gaza operation
byEylon Aslan-Levy