Introduction: Minorities, Fascism and Anti-Fascism

Political Violence and Democracy in Western Europe, 1918–1940

“…For many working-class Jews, the idea of participating in a successful struggle against the fascists, conducted in close collaboration with non-Jewish allies, became an integral feature of identity formation, as this recent generation of immigrants negotiated the relationship between their British and Jewish identities, and sought to establish their place within British society and the Jewish communal structure. 107 Today, it remains a proud and central aspect of Anglo-Jewish collective memory.…”