Here Isabelle Seddon reveals the astonishing contributions made by British born Jewish women in the arts during the twentieth century. Some of the women you will meet here were well-known in their fields such as singer Amy Winehouse, and others whose names are less familiar, but whose contributions to their fields are no less notable such as Rebecca Solomon, a painter of social injustices. The intersection of gender, Jewishness, social status and education links the experiences of all of the women featured in this volume, across their varied cultural outputs and contributions from acting to musicianship, writing to art, sport to cookery. The persecution of the Jews across the ages, including the Holocaust, is one of the factors that ties many of these highly accomplished women together. This, alongside the legacies of immigrant and refugee backgrounds, motivated and inspired them to shape British culture in remarkable and fascinating ways.
"The book provides a useful introduction to Jewish women who have played an important role in British culture and the arts. …. The book is recommended for Jewish studies collections in academic and research libraries, as well as large synagogue libraries."
Susan Freiband
"It is to Isabelle Seddon's great credit that she marks the contributions of the early pioneers, as well as those who have done sterling work in more recent years."
