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This chapter offers an outline of the title’s key themes and arguments, locating them within two cross-disciplinary areas of study: firstly, the inhabiting and making of the modern city by migrant communities in Britain; secondly, the varieties of public life and the limitations of access to the bourgeois public sphere. Also offered is a historical account of the mass migration of Jews into Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, and an overview of the social and cultural lives of Jewish communities that developed in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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A chevra(-oth) was a small society, typically set up in a single room within a private house, that served as a place of worship, a friendly society, a social hub and a point of contact for newly arrived migrants.
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Toffell, G. (2018). Introduction. In: Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56931-8_1
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