I am delighted to announce a Special Issue of the Journal of European Popular Culture, Volume 3 Issue 2 (October 2012), entitled, ‘Jews in British Cinema’, edited by Nathan Abrams (Bangor University).

Contents

Introduction: ‘Jews in British cinema’

Nathan Abrams

Page Start: 111
A British empire of their own? Jewish entrepreneurs in the British film industry

Authors: Andrew Spicer

Page Start: 117
‘And Israel watcheth over each’: The Jewish reception of Jew Suss (1934) in Inter-war Britain

Authors: Gil Toffell

Page Start: 131
Exiled to hollywood: British cinema, the plight of Europe’s Jews and the case of The Mortal Storm

Authors: Phyllis Lassner And Alexis Pogorelskin

Page Start: 143
The hate that dared not speak its name: Svengali, anti-Semitism and post-war British heritage cinema

Authors: Margaret D. Stetz

Page Start: 155
Jewish girls in British cinema

Authors: Michele Byers

Page Start: 169

Further details can be found here: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2357/

With best wishes

Nathan Abrams

Bangor University