English centre vs. Celtic periphery: the Chief Rabbi, Shechita and Dundee, 1883. Issue 2 (4th May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Abrams, Nathan
• Is Part Of: Jewish culture and history. Volume 19:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 154
• Page End: 168
• Publication Date: 2018-05-04
• Subjects: Scotland -- Dundee -- centre -- periphery -- chief rabinate -- kashrut; Jews -- History -- Periodicals; Jews -- Social life and customs -- Periodicals; Judaism -- Customs and practices -- Periodicals; Jodendom; Jews; Jews -- Social life and customs; Judaism -- Customs and practices; History; Periodicals; 909.04924
• DOI: 10.1080/1462169X.2018.1478189
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1462-169X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Using a case study from Dundee, this article scrutinises historians' assumptions about the nature of links between the major British-Jewish centres and 'the periphery'. Utilising a cache of letters addressed to the Chief Rabbi concerning the provision of a trained Jewish butcher ( shochet ) in 1883, Abrams considers the Jewish community of Dundee in northeast Scotland as an example of Jews at a temporal, organisational, cultural and geographical frontier. The episode to which these letters refer tests the assumption of Anglo-Jewish historians that the provincial communities were considered, and considered themselves, subordinate to the regularly constituted ecclesiastical authorities in London.