Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s Syed Manzurul (Manzu) Islam

Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s Syed Manzurul (Manzu) IslamThroughout the 1930s, Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts increased their campaign against the Jewish community, particularly in London's East End. As their campaign became more overtly anti Semitic the Jewish community debated how to deal with the Fascist threat, building their own defence organisations, culminating in the Battle of Cable Street when 100,000 Jews, Irish and others came out to stop Mosley marching into the East End. David Rosenberg leads

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Three Centuries

Extracts from Sherko Berkes’s The Valley of Butterfly

overexertion as his burden as bridge-builder

Brought up on the island of Islay

This version was written alongside similar re-imaginings of several Old English poems

including the prestigious SeaCat National Poetry Award

The Edge of Oblivion

Ori Bernstein

Autumn/Winter 2008

This nudges her to call her friend Kasia

"This is poetry of absolute physical celebration and relentless observation