Whitechapel Boy

Race & Class ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Chris Searle
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Western Front ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Forthcoming Book ◽  
East End

Excerpts are provided here from a forthcoming book to mark the centenary of the poet Isaac Rosenberg, who died in France on the Western Front in 1918. The author, who was able to interview Rosenberg’s contemporary Joseph Leftwich, explains Rosenberg’s experiences of anti-Semitism, including in the army, and his roots in London’s working-class, Jewish East End.

The Making of a Working-Class Suburb in Hamilton's East End, 1900-1945

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Harrs ◽  
Mast Sendbuehler
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
East End

La Scuola di Francoforte in esilio: storia di un'inchiesta sull'antisemitismo nella classe operaia americana

2009 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Catherine Collomp
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
American Working Class ◽  
Working World

- Between July and December 1944 the Institute for social research of Columbia University made known the results of a survey on anti-Semitism in the American working class carried out by the Jewish Labor Committee of New York. The results of the research confirmed the rooting of a few stereotypes and prejudices on Jews in some specific segments of the American working world: more widespread among "blue collars" rather than "white collars" and among the white population rather than the black. This form of anti-Semitism involved, paradoxically, also the workers of factories producing weapons to fight against the Third Reich. A form of anti-Semitism which did not stop with the end of World War II but turned, using the same mechanisms analyzed by migrant German sociologists, into a discrimination against communist militants.Parole chiave: Scuola di Francoforte, esilio, classe operaia, antisemitismo, razzismo, comunismo School of Frankfurt, exile, anti-Semitism, working class, racism, communism

From Happy Individuals to Universal Sisterhood

Walter Besant ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 187-202
Author(s):  
Vicky Cheng ◽  
Haejoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Familial Bonds ◽  
East End ◽  
Walter Besant ◽  
Liberal Thought

This essay traces the shifting frameworks of affective reform proposed by Walter Besant in two of his novels about the East End, All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) and Children of Gibeon (1886). While the cultivation of individual happiness based on bourgeois domesticity offers a strategy for reorienting working-class values in the former novel, the latter promotes a pursuit of communitarian values rooted in universal sisterhood, which supersedes familial bonds and class distinctions. Reading these two novels in conversation with each other reveals a narrative critique of rights-based individualism along the lines of revisionist liberal thought, and redirects affective attention toward fostering kinship associations for communal mutuality.

scholarly journals Claude McKay, The Workers' Dreadnought, and collaborative poetics

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Stephanie J Brown
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Political Judgment ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
The Arts ◽  
East End ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Holistic Representation

This paper considers the journalism and poetry Claude McKay produced for Sylvia Pankhurst's communist weekly Workers' Dreadnought in 1920 as a collaboratively produced body of work. This allowed Pankhurst to have a Black communist commentator on hand to cover workers' issues, and McKay used Pankhurst's periodical as a platform from which to dramatise the aesthetic and political potential inherent in collaboration between working-class activists, journalists, and artists for the paper's readers. In the Dreadnought's pages, McKay's poems very publicly weighed the value of collaborative labour and considered the arts' place in the class struggle. He simultaneously produced journalism that advocated collaboration among races to resist the racial antagonism that sparked violence in the most impoverished East End communities in the summers of 1919 and 1920. Ultimately, McKay's work for the Dreadnought produced a holistic representation of working-class intellectual life founded on the production of beauty and the exercise of aesthetic as well as political judgment, one that depicts these activities as inevitably commingled and collaboratively produced.

Religion and Politics

British Gods ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 228-251
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Anti Semitism

In Catholic Europe, progressive and working-class politics have often been anti-religious. In Britain, class conflict was often expressed within, rather than against, Christianity, with the Labour Party having deep roots in dissenting movements such as the Methodists. This chapter details such class connections and associated regional movements (such as the anti-English appeal of the Welsh chapels). It considers Muslim involvement in the Labour Party and the roots of anti-Semitism. The rapid rise and fall of the Christian Party and the Christian People’s Alliance are used to test the electoral popularity of conservative socio-moral positions. An apparent connection between identifying as Church of England and BREXIT-era xenophobia is demonstrated to be largely a matter of nostalgia: regular churchgoers are more likely than nominal identifiers to be pro-European Union and sympathetic to immigrants.

HAMILTON'S EAST END: THE EARLY WORKING-CLASS SUBURB

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Harris ◽  
Matthew P. Sendbuehler
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
East End

Letter From Poland

1991 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-228
Author(s):  
Antoni Z. Kaminski ◽  
Joanna Kurczewska
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Class Background ◽  
The World

WE STARTED WRITING THIS LETTER ON 22 DECEMBER 1990, the day that Lech Walesa was sworn in before the Polish Sejm as the first President of Poland ever elected in national elections. Even during this memorable ceremony, some MPs could not hide their deep dissatisfaction. They shared with a large portion of intellectuals of the world the conviction that Mazowiecki, a journalist, would be a far better president for Poland than Walesa the shipyard - worker.Having followed with some curiosity the Western coverage of the Polish elections, and of the political struggles that preceded it, we have the impression that the coverage was biased, and often misleading. Commentators repeated misleading stereotypes, identifying themselves with one side in the political conflict in Poland. They presented a black-and-white picture of the conflict. Tadeusz Mazoweicki symbolized stability, democracy, tolerance, open-mindedness, ‘true’ pluralism, etc.; while the ‘terrible Lech Walesa’ represented dictatorship, obscurantism, anti-Semitism, populism, and chaos. Subtle references were made to Walesa's working-class background, to his lack of poise and education. We find such journalistic bad manners outrageous.

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