The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman (The Modern Jewish Experience)

Endelman, Todd M.

ISBN 10: 025306175X / ISBN 13: 9780253061751

Published by Indiana University Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan Salaman (The Modern Jewish Experience)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 025306175X
• ISBN 13: 9780253061751
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Redcliffe Salaman (1874–1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time, The Last Anglo-JewishGentleman restores him to his place in the history of British science and the British Jewish community.
 
Redcliffe Salaman was also a leading figure in the Anglo-Jewish community in the 20th century. At the same time, he was also an incisive critic of the changing character of that community. His groundbreaking book, The History and Social Influence of the Potato, first published in 1949 and in print ever since, is a classic in social history. His wife Nina was a feminist, poet, essayist, and translator of medieval Hebrew poetry. She was the first (and to this day, only) woman to deliver a sermon in an Orthodox synagogue in Britain.
 
The Last-Anglo Jewish Gentleman offers a compelling biography of a unique individual. It also provides insights into the life of English Jews during the late-19th and early-20th centuries and brings to light largely unknown controversies and tensions in Jewish life.

About the Author

Todd Endelman is Professor Emeritus of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. His many books include Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656–1945 (IUP, 1990), The Jews of Britain, 1656–2000, Broadening Jewish History: Toward a Social History of Ordinary Jews, and Leaving the Jewish Fold: Conversion and Radical Assimilation in Modern Jewish History.