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The rich complexity of Britain’s Jewish population

There is no single community, Harry Freedman stresses, but a multitude of voices ranging from the liberal to the ultra-orthodox

The gifted rabbi Louis Jacobs, who was denied the leadership of Jews’ College in the 1960s for ‘his published views’. [Alamy]
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  • Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety

    Harry Freedman

    Bloomsbury, pp. 368, £20

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