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Podcast: LBI London
Episode: German Jews, English Gentry: The Messel Family and the Cultural Expression of a Changing Identity
Description: Leo Baeck Institute London Summer Lecture
Speaker: John Hilary, honorary professor at the University of Nottingham
The conspicuous set of German-Jewish financiers who made their homes in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain brought with them a rich cultural inheritance that reflected the historical journey of German Jewry towards emancipation. As they established themselves in their new environment, they faced the challenge of being at one and the same time German, Jewish, British and English, and the crisis of having to choose between allegiances in the dark days of the First World War.
This lecture explores the diverse ways in...