A study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry that focuses on the relationship between the local, the national and the global. It explores the construction of identities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in relation to the concept of place.

The organization thereafter is chronological, starting with medieval Winchester, moving to early modern Portsmouth and then chapters covering the evolution of Anglo-Jewry from emancipation to the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on the impact on identities resulting from the complex relationship between migration (including transmigration) and settlement of minority groups. This book will appeal to scholars interested in Jewish and other minority experiences and, more broadly, the relationship between the local and the global in our fast changing world.

Preface and Acknowledgments1. Placing the 'local'2. Wessex tales/Yiddisher spiels3. Winchester: Constructing the city of memories4. Point of contestation: Jews in Portsmouth during the long eighteenth century5. Jewish emancipation and after: Locality, brotherhood and the nature of tolerance6. Settlement and migration from the 1850s to 19147. Historicizing the invisible: Transmigrancy, memory and local identities8. Memory at the margins, matter out of place: Hidden narratives of jewish settlement and movement in the interwar yearsConclusionIndex