LEADER 03771cam a2200469 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20230202125430.0 008 140521s2015 enka b 001 0 eng 010 2014020197 020 9781472510570 (hardback) 020 |z9781472507259 (epdf) 020 |z9781472505682 (epub) 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |erda |dDLC |dhubpceuo 041 eng 042 pcc 043 e-uk--- 050 00 DA578 |b.T55 2015 082 00 305.892/404109043 |223 084 HIS010000HIS037070POL042030 |2bisacsh 100 1 Tilles, Daniel, |eauthor. 245 10 British Fascist antisemitism and Jewish responses, 1932-40 / |cDaniel Tilles. 260 London : |bBloomsbury, |c2015. 300 viii, 262 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm. 337 unmediated 490 0 A modern history of politics and violence 500 Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of London, 2011. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-253) and index. 505 8 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. 520 "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 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 610 20 British Union of Fascists. 650 0 Fascism |zGreat Britain |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Antisemitism |zGreat Britain |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Jews |zGreat Britain |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Great Britain |xEthnic relations. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6305_892000000000000_404109043_TIL |70 |8GEN |9161163OSA |bOSA |d2023-01-19 |eComFas |l0 |o305.892/404109043 TIL |r2023-01-19 |w2023-01-19 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 3YRVwbY1 992 01 305_892000000000000_404109043_TIL |bWZU_RQXZZZZZZZZZZZZ_VZVYZQZVW_6HE 966 |cIn the Research Room