London
Winds of Change

The revival of the London Jewish community in the 17th century, a place of anti-Semitic violence some four centuries before, was the result of some of the shrewdest maneuverings in Jewish history. Rabbi Wein shows how the gradual weakening of the British monarchy greased the path for Jewish growth in England, but how anti-Semitic attitudes have always remained latent there. Because of this, the Jewish experience in England has been a mixed picture of occasional favor with widespread assimilation.