7. Great Yiddish Parade Flashcards

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Key dates

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  • 1889, Jewish tailors went on strike
  • 1905, The Aliens Act restricted immigration for the first time
  • 1936, Fascist Blackshirts were stopped from marching through the East End
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The British Brothers League

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  • Founded in East London in 1900
  • Accused Jewish immigrants of putting up rents, taking jobs and forcing down wages
  • Recruited members from the local Irish community and their rally on Mile End Road in January 1902 attracted 4,000 marchers
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Describe the divide between the Anglo-Jews and the new Jewish arrivals

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  • There were deep divided between the new arrivals and some settled Anglo-Jews who were uncomfortable about the influx and wanted to restrict the numbers arriving
  • There were also fundamental religious and political divisions
  • Socialist and Communist ideas, often led by Jews, were spreading in Russia in opposition to the monarchy, and many Jews arrived from there already politically active
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Berner Street radicals’

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Aimed to end the social injustice affecting all the London working class

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The Great Yiddish Parade

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  • In March 1889, unemployed workers and ‘sweaters’ victims’ marched to the Great Synagogue in Aldgate
  • To demand that the Chief Rabbi speak against the employers’ treatment of workers
  • When they arrived the Chief Rabbi was not there and he denied that he had ever agreed to speak on that day
  • The Chief Rabbi refused to denounce the employers
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Why did the Chief Rabbi refuse to make a speech at the Great Yiddish Parade?

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  • Anglo-Jews did not want another wave of anti-immigrant feeling
  • They also did not want to annoy the English establishment
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Why did the dockers agree to help the Jewish strikers?

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Although they did not like them, they understood that working as a collective to demand better conditions and pay for workers was beneficial to everyone

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What were the demands of the striking Jewish garment workers?

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  • That the hours be reduced to twelve, with an interval of one hour for dinner and half and hour for tea
  • All meals to be had off the premises
  • Government contractors to pay wages at trade union rates
  • Government contractors and sweaters not to give work home at night after working hours
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