General Information

Author/Creator

Tilles, Daniel, author.

Language

English.

Published

London : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Physical Description

viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"British Fascist Antisemitism and Jewish Responses, 1932-40 explores the use of antisemitism by Britain's interwar fascists and the ways in which the country's Jews reacted to this. It analyses these issues in far greater breadth and depth than any previous study and examines the two alongside one another for the first time. Daniel Tilles challenges existing conceptions of the antisemitism of Britain's foremost fascist organisation, the British Union of Fascists (BUF). He demonstrates that antisemitism was a far more central aspect of the party's thought than has previously been assumed, one that had been present from the outset and was inseparable from - indeed integral to - its ideological goals. Moreover, he argues that the BUF's leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, far from being a reluctant convert to the anti-Jewish cause, or simply a cynical exploiter of it, as much of the existing scholarship suggests, was aware of the role antisemitism would play in his fascist doctrine from the start and remained in control of its subsequent development. These insights are in turn used to support the notion that, contrary to prevailing perceptions, Jewish opposition to the BUF played no real part in provoking the fascists' adoption of antisemitism. Britain's Jews did, nevertheless, play a vital role in shaping British fascism's path of development, and the wide-ranging and effective anti-fascist activity they pursued represents an important alternative narrative to the dominant image of Jews as mere victims of fascism"--cover

Subjects

Subject

British Union of Fascists.

Fascism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.

Antisemitism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.

Jews > Great Britain > History > 20th century.

Great Britain > Ethnic relations.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Daniel Tilles.

Series

A modern history of politics and violence

Note

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of London, 2011.

Content

General introduction. The BUF and antisemitism. Anti-fascism and Anglo-Jewry -- Part I. British Fascist Antisemitism. 1. Introduction -- 2. The Evolution of Anti-Jewish Discourse -- 3. Cleansing the Nation: Antisemitism and Ideology -- 4. Mosley, Fascism and Antisemitism -- Part II. Jewish responses to British Fascism. 5. Introduction -- 6. Early Responses to the BUF, 1932-5 -- 7. The Defence Debate, 1936 8. Communal Convergence, 1937-40 -- Conclusion.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

9781472510570

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	305.892/404109043 TIL		General Stacks	-

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