Jews and Other Foreigners: Manchester and the Rescue of the Victims of European Fascism, 193340

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Drawing on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of Manchester society, from Jewish communal organisations and the Zionist movement to the Christian churches, pacifist organisations and private charities, it offers a critical analysis of the factors which facilitated and limited the work of rescue and their effect on the lives of the seven or eight thousand refugees - Spanish, Italian, German, Austrian and Czech - who arrived in Manchester between 1933 and 1940. -- .

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the distinctiveness of this work is indisputable and it sets the standard for a new kind of micro-historical approach to the subject.'
Jennifer Craig-Norton, Reviews in History, December 2012

'This remarkable and important book is a major contribution to our knowledge'
Alan Crosby, Northern History, September 2012

Short-listed for 2012 The Portico Prize for Non Fiction

The book is distinguished by the exemplary thoroughness of its research. Williams displays a remarkable knowledge of Manchester Jewry, its communal institutions and organisations, its personalities, places of worship and, not least, internal divisions.

Author Bio

Bill Williams is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester.