Anti-Jewish feelings in England, which ran high during the struggle between the British and the Jews in Palestine, have greatly subsided since the establishment of the Jewish state, William Frankel, London representative of the American Jewish Committee, told a press conference here today.
Mr. Frankel emphasized that “there never was and there is not now discrimination against Jews in hotels, clubs and resorts in England, and very little socially and in the professions.” Only a major collapse in the British economic situation will drive large numbers of citizens into anti-democratic parties, he stated.
Declaring that leaders of British Jewry are now beginning to pay more attention to strengthening Jewish communal institutions throughout the country, Mr. Frankel said: “There is a fundamental problem common to Anglo-Jewry, as to all other diaspora communities, and that is whether Anglo-Jewry can survive as a Jewish community. Can a small community of 400,000 provide a Jewish content for the lives of the vast majority of its members, who may be only mildly religious and who do not wish to emigrate to Israeli The same problem exists in the United States, but the latter’s resources, in terms of manpower and material, are so infinitely greater that we look with very great interest to what happens here as a guide for our own future development.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
