Abstract
Before evaluating the impact of organized political anti-Semitism in England between the two world wars, it should be recalled that anti-Jewish prejudices persisted in 20th century Britain as part of the Christian cultural tradition. Social discrimination against Jews was not unusual, and adverse stereotypes of ‘the Jews’ were mirrored and passed on in folklore and literature — even in nursery rhymes such as the following:
Jack sold his gold egg To a rascally Jew, Who cheated him out of The half of his due.
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The Jew got the goose Which he vowed he would kill, Resolving at once His pockets to fill.1
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L. Chisholm (ed.), Nursery Rhymes (London, 1921) pp. 2–3.
Cf. H. Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children (17th impr. London, 1973) pp. 63–8.
I. and P. Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Oxford, 1967) p. 346.
For the susceptibility towards anti-Semitism at a personality level, cf. T. W. Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality (New York, 1950).
S. Freud, Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion (Frankfurt, 1964).
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For images of ‘the Jew’ in English literature, cf. E. D. Coleman, The Jew in English Drama (New York, 1968).
H. Fisch, The Dual Image (London, 1971).
B. Glassman, Anti-Semitic Stereotypes Without Jews. Images of the Jews in England 1290–1700 (Detroit, 1975).
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S. Thompson, Motif-Index of Folk-Literature VI (Cophenhagen, 1958).
Cf. E. Krausz, Ethnic Minorities in Britain (London, 1972) pp. 55–86.
Cf. B. Bettelheim, J. Janowitz, Dynamics of Prejudice. A Psychological and Sociological Study of Veterans (New York, 1950).
See also B. Kosmin, ‘Colonial Careers for Marginal Fascists’, Wiener Library Bulletin XXVII, n.s. nr 30/31 (1973/4) pp. 16–23.
W. Lewis, The Jews —Are They Human? (London, 1939) p. 7.
Also H. Martin, Critic’s London Diary (London, 1960) p. 79.
M. Muggeridge, The Thirties (London, 1940) pp. 242–3.
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Lebzelter, G.C. (1978). Conclusions. In: Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918–1939. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04000-1_10
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