Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland

Hannah Holtschneider is a cultural historian at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests span early twentieth century Jewish history in Britain, Jewish migration history, the impact of the Holocaust on individuals and communities, Holocaust memorialisation, and the representation of history in museums.

• Abbreviations, Preface, AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Portrait and ideology2. The Chief Rabbi, the London Beth Din, and the battle for leadership in the ‘provinces’3. Scotland: local leaders, local communities4. Traces and spaces: Jews and / in the city of EdinburghEpilogue, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, References, Notes

Hannah Holtschneider skilfully contextualises Rabbi Salis Daiches’s career in Edinburgh and his emergence as the rabbinic spokesman for Scottish Jewry in the first half of the twentieth century.　 She reveals him to be a canny opponent of Britain's chief rabbi, Joseph Hertz, and a relentless defender of the independence of Scotland's Jewish communities.