‘Playing Deaf’: Jewish Women at the Medical Missions of East London, 1880–1920s

Organizations whose fundamentalist eschatology inspired them to attempt to convert Jews to Christianity had existed from early in the nineteenth century, but with the intensification of Jewish emigration to Britain in the 1880s dozens opened stations in East London. Historians today correctly contin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellen Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2011-09-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/622