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Research article

A London Jew in the California gold rush

Author:Todd M. Endelman(University of Michigan, USA)

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How to Cite: Endelman, T. (2024) “A London Jew in the California gold rush”, Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry. 55(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.jhs.2024v55.07

The history of the Jews in Britain is a history of successive waves of immigration, beginning with the descendants of conversos in the seventeenth century and concluding, it would seem, with refugees from Arab and Soviet hostility in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as South African Jews escaping the apartheid system. The settlement, acculturation, and eventual integration of these successive waves is one way to organize or signpost the telling of Anglo-Jewish history. An economic corollary to this scheme is the gradual embourgeoisement of most descendants of these immigrants, for Britain was not only a safe haven but also a land of opportunity, by virtue of its economic dynamism and (relative) openness to talent. While historians in recent decades also emphasize the hostility and resistance of many Britons to these influxes, they seem to accept the characterization of Anglo-Jewish history as a story of slow but pers