DEFENDING BRITISH JEWS

PAMPHLETS ATTACKING BRITISH ANTI-SEMITISM - publications by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and others.

A rare collection of ephemera defending Jews against anti-Semitic attacks in Britain before and during the Second World War.

JEWISH DEFENCE CAMPAIGN – RENTON, Frank. Speakers’ Handbook. [London:] The Woburn Press [for Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1937]. 8vo (168 x 115 mm.) Original green wrappers (whole disbound with staples removed leaving light rust marks).

– Speakers’ Notes: No.3 [4, 5, 7, 19, 20, 24, 25, 28] ... Not for circulation. [London:] the Woburn Press [for Board of Deputies of British Jews, n.d., but c. 1937]. 9 pamphlets, 8vo (204 x 126 mm.), loose leaves stapled at top left-hand corner (staples rusted with associated light spotting).

BIRCH, Lionel. Why they join the Fascists. London: People's Press, [n.d., c. 1937]. 8vo (215 x 140 mm.) Original stapled wrappers (staples rusted, light soiling to covers).

ANON. International finance: more fascist lies exposed. Tiptree, Essex: The Anchor Press, [n.d., but c. 1939]. 8vo (215 x 140 mm.) Original stapled self wrappers (worn, loose and stained). Refutation of Nazi propaganda blaming Jewish bankers and international finance for the war. The text implies that war is imminent, but not yet declared.

BRITISH YOUTH PEACE ASSEMBLY. Youth and the Refugee Problem. London: [n.d., but c. 1939]. 8vo 215 x 140 mm.), 8pp. Pink donation and refugee hospitality form loosely inserted. Original stapled self wrappers (front cover unevenly darkened and soiled, staples rusted).

PARBROOK, Rev. G.H. The Jewish Bogey. Tiptree, Essex: Anchor Press, [n.d., but c. 1940]. Bifolium leaf (223 x 143 mm.), 4pp. (Marginal rust marks.) Provenance: Christopher Brunel (red ink ownership stamp to last page). This pamphlet states that it was reprinted from the Chester-le-Street Chronicle.

BLISS, L. J. Christians and Anti-Semitism. Magnificat publication, 5. [Birmingham]: Council of Clergy & Ministers for Common Ownership, [n.d., but c. 1943.]. 8vo (207 x 126 mm.), 8pp. Original stapled self wrappers (staples rusted, faint marginal soiling).

ARNOT, Robert page. There are no aryans: a popular study of the bogus race doctrines of the Nazis (and others) in the light of reason and scientific facts, with special reference to anti-Semitism. London: Labour Monthly, [n.d., but c. 1943]. 8vo (182 x 124 mm.), 32pp. Original stapled wrappers (covers faintly soiled).

CROUCH, A.C. Jews are News! Leicester: Newman Wolsey, [n.d., but c. 1943]. 8vo (182 x 123 mm.), 32pp. Original stapled wrappers (light soiling). Worldcat only gives a 7th edition of 1948, but no other. This may well be the first edition; the date may be inferred by internal evidence, with a quotation from the Manchester Evening News of 24 May 1943.

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