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My history of post-War British Jewry is consciously unorthodox

JL;DR SUMMARY In the post-War period, British Jewry gained significant prominence as it became the largest Jewish community in Europe, assuming a critical role in international Jewish affairs and influencing the Jewish presence in Palestine. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentityCommunityAssimilationJonathan SacksSecularismBritish JewryPostwar Period

Places mentioned

United Kingdom
"British Jewish communities cannot be explained or understood simply in terms of their anxieties; Jewish lives are much more interesting than that."
London, England, United Kingdom
"The growing number of non-or-minimally-practising Jews who instinctively saw (or thought they should see) on-going value in their Jewishness but didnt really know what to do with it."
Palestinian Territories
"in the immediate aftermath of the War, British Jewry also assumed an importance on the global Jewish stage as interlocutors between the British government and the Jewish refugees headed for the mandate territory of Palestine."
Israel
"My book explores the ways in which British Jews speedily mobilised in support of the State of Israel in 1967 and 1973."
Russian Federation
"were similarly determined to help other international Jewish communities under attack (thus the sustained support for Soviet Jewish Refuseniks in the 1970s and 1980s)."
Paris, France
"defined a Jew as someone that was so designated by others. In a text written in a Paris just liberated from the Nazis such a definition made obvious sense, but it does not hold true in the present day."

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