The Impact of Zionism and Israel on Anglo-Jewry's Identity, 1948-1982

Using previously unpublished communal sources and an innovative chronological-thematic structure, Omer-Jackaman analyzes the effects of Zionism and the State of Israel on the identity of Britain's Jews between the founding of the Jewish State and the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Throughout the book, a picture emerges of the often fraught relationship between Israeli and Anglo-Jewry during the period. Despite British Jews' close identification with the Jewish State, there was a fundamental tension between the two Jewish communities, based on competing and perhaps even irreconcilable visions of Jewish identify after the creation of the State of Israel.