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CONTENTS the Non-Zionists in Anglo-Jewry, 1 93 7- 1948 Jewish VOLUME XXVIII NUMBER 2 DECEMBER i986 CONTENTS The Non-Zionists in Anglo-Jewry, 193 7- 1948 GIDEON SHIMONI Jewish Religious Observance in Early Victorian London, 1840-1860 STE v EN S IN GER W. E. B. DuBois on Black Nationalism and Zionism BENYAMIN NEUBERGER Ideology and the Holocaust ROBERT BENE WICK Book Reviews Chronicle Editor:Judith Freedman OBJECTS AND SPONSORSHIP OF THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY The Jewish Journal c/Sociology was sponsored by the Cultural Department of the World Jewish Congress from its inception in 1959 until the end of ig80. Thereafter, from the first issue of I g8 i (volume 23, no. i), thejournal has been sponsored by Maurice Freedman Research Trust Limited, which is registered as an educational charity and has as its main purposes the encouragement of research in the sociology of thejews and the publication ofTheJewishJournal of Sociology. The objects of thejournal remain as stated in the Editorial of the first issue in 1959: 'This Journal has been brought into being in order to provide an international vehicle for serious writing on Jewish social affairs Academically we address ourselves not only to sociologists, but to social scientists in general, to historians, to philosophers, and to students of comparative religion. We should like to stress both that thejournal is editorially independent and that the opinions expressed by authors are their own responsibility.' The founding Editor of the JJS was Morris Ginsberg, and the founding Managing Editor was Maurice Freedman. Morris Ginsberg, who had been Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, died in 1970. Maurice Freedman, who had been Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and later at the University of Oxford, succeeded to the title of Editor in 1971, when Dr Judith Freedman (who had been Assistant Editor since 1963) became Managing Editor. Maurice Freedman died in ig; since then the journal has been edited by DrJudith Freedman. Applications for subscriptions and enquiries regarding back numbers should be addressed to: THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY 187 GLOUCESTER PLACE LONDON NWI Gsu ENGLAND TELEPHONE: 01 262 8939 THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Volume XXVIII Number 2 : December 1986 CONTENTS The Non-Zionists in Anglo-Jewry, 1937-1948 GIDEON SHIMONI 89 Jewish Religious Observance in Early Victorian London, 184o-186o STEVENSINGER 117 W. E. B. DuBois on Black Nationalism and Zionism BENYAMIN NEUBERGER 139 Ideology and the Holocaust ROBERT BENEWICK 145 Book Reviews 149 Chronicle i61 Books Received i66 Notes on Contributors i68 PUBLISI-IED TWICE YEARLY, INJUNE AND DECEMBER by Maurice Freedman Research Trust Ltd (Published by the \VorldJewish Congress 1959-80) ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION INSTITUTIONS: £12.00 (U.S. $24.00) INDIVIDUALS: £io.00 (U.S. $20.00) SINGLE COPIES: £6.00 (U.S. $12.00) Applications for subscriptions should be sent to TheJewishJournal of Sociology, 187 Gloucester Place, London NWi 6BU, England. Telephone: 01 262 8939 EDITOR Judith Freedman ADVISORY BOARD R. Bachi (Israel) Lloyd P. Gartner (Israel) Howard Brotz (Canada) Nathan Glazer (U.S.A.) Percy S. Cohen (Britain) Jacques Gutwirth (France) Moshc Davis (Israel) Elie Kedouric (Britain) S. N. Eisenstadt (Israel) S.J. Prais (Britain) © MAURICE FREEDMAN RESEARCH TRUST LTD 1986 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY V. S. MANEY & SON LTD, LEEDS BOOKS REVIEWED Author Title Reviewer Page Saul Bernstein The Renaissance ofthe Torah Jew LouisJacobs '49 Christopher Fateful Months. Essays on the Emergence Robert Benewick '45 Browning oft/ic Final Solution Galvin Goldscheider Jewish Continuity and Change: Lloyd P. Gartner 150 Emerging Patterns in America Nancy L. Green The Pletzl ofParis. Jewish Immigrant V.0. Lipman 152 Workers in the Belle Epoque Abraham Halkin and Crisis and Leadership: Epistles of LouisJacobs '54 David Hartman Maimonides Jehudafteinharz Chaim Weizmann: The Making ofa V. D. Lipman '57 Zionist Leader Simon Taylor Prelude to Genocide. Nazi Ideology and Robert Benewick '45 the Strugglefor Power Robert Wistrich Hitler's Apocalypse. Jews andthe Nazi Robert Benewick '45 Legacy 87 NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS Papers submitted to The Jewish Journal of Sociology should be addressed to the Editor at 187 Gloucester Place, London NWi 6BU, England. The papers must be original. They should not have been published previously, or be committed to publication elsewhere, in any language. When a paper has been accepted for publication, the author may not publish it elsewhere in any language, without the written consent of the Editor oftheJ.S.S. MSS (please sendat least two copies) should be typewritten on one side only and double-spaced with ample margins. Pages (including those containing illustrations, diagrams, or tables) should be numbered consecutively. All quotations should be within single inverted commas; quotation marks within quotations should be double inverted commas. Notes should follow the style of thisjournal and should be given at the end of the article in numerical sequence according to the order of their citation in the text. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS Books Give author, title, place of publication, year, and page reference. Underline all titles of books. Articles Place titles of articles within single inverted commas. Underline the title of the book orjournal in which the article appears. In the case ofajournal, cite numbers ofvolume and part, and year of publication. PROOFS. Authors making major revisions in proof will be required to bear the cost. Unless proofs are returned to the Managing Editor promptly, authors' corrections cannot be incorporated. OFFPRINT5. Each contributor receives thirty free offprints of his article. If there are two or more authors, the thirty offprints are shared between them. ELI THE NON-ZIONISTS IN ANGLO-JE WRY, 7-1948 Gideon Shimoni PREVIOUS article, which appeared in the last issue of this Journal,1 dealt with the development of the non-Zionist Aposition in Anglo-Jewry from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 until the Peel Commission's partition proposal of 1937. There was a progressive shift from anti-Zionism (active opposition to the Zionist Organization) to non-Zionism, which was ideological disagreement with Zionism but willingness to co-operate with the Zionist Organiza- tion in certain practical and political spheres. The present article is mainly concerned with the activities ofnon-Zionists and their reactions to Zionist assertiveness from 1937 until the establishment of the State of Israel. The non-Zionist position rested on the assumptions that sovereign Jewish statehood was not a practical proposition and that the Zionist leadership had reconciled itself to the White Paper of 1922 in which Britain committed itself to a Palestine policy which fell far short of grantingJewish sovereignty in the Holy Land. However, in 1937 the Royal Commission headed by Lord Peel recommended a partition solution to the Palestine problem. Since that recommendation, if implemented, would lead to the creation ofajewish state, albeit a small one, the non-Zionists were bound to oppose it. When the Zionist leaders, especially David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann, accepted the principle of partition, the basis for the non-Zionists' co-operation with the Zionist Organization was undermined. A schism in the enlarged Jewish Agency (consisting of both Zionists and non-Zionists) was averted only because the British government withdrew the partition proposal soon after it had been made and then went on to adopt a new policy which greatly favoured the Arabs. The \Vhite Paper of 17 May 1939 declared that the government's objective was the establishment, within ten years, of an independent Palestine state; that only some 75,000Jewish immigrants would be admitted to Palestine over the subsequent five years, after which Arab agreement would be required for any further Jewish immigration; and that restrictions would be placed upon land transfers tojews. That meant in effect that Palestine was to become another independent Arab state and GIDEON SFIIMONI that thejews were to remain a minority numbering no more than about one third of that state's total population. This drastic retreat from Britain's mandatory responsibility - as non-Zionists no less than Zionists understood it - temporarily reunited the members of the British Section of thejewish Agency. In a speech at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, even Robert Waley Cohen (who, of all the non-Zionists, was the one most critical of Zionist policy) sharply condemned the White Paper as 'a gravely mistaken proposal . bad for England . and bad for the further progress of civilisation for which the British Empire stood'. He said that apart from questions of bad faith and broken promises it was a surrender 'ofone of the great constructive achievements of the world' to the forces of banditry and destruction and added: 'I do not believe that there has been such a setting of the sun of British Imperial destiny as tojustify this ignominious retreat'.2 (The Balfour Declaration of November 1917, which was approved by the Cabinet, had stated: 'His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for theJewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object . .' while Article 2 of the Mandate for Palestine inJuly 1922 made Great Britain 'responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home. However, the united opposition to the 1939 White Paper had only a temporary cohesive effect. The fundamental disagreement between Zionists and non-Zionists over the question of a Jewish state re-emerged at a crucial meeting held at the Rothschild offices at New Court in September 1941 between Weizmann, Ben-Gurion, Brodetsky, and other Zionist personalities, and eleven leading non-Zionists, including Anthony de Rothschild, Lionel Cohen, Lord Bearsted, Leonard Montefiore, and Neville Laski. Chaim Weizmann used all his powers of persuasion to try to convince those present that, unless the Jewish Agency were granted authority tantamount to statehood, absorption of the anticipated mass ofdisplacedJews who would survive the war would not be assured.
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