ABSTRACT
In what sense and to what extent was it possible for Jews and Jewish immigrants to become English in the late Victorian and Edwardian years? In this essay I examine the problem of anglicis ation in its most obviously ideological aspect: the ways in which immigrants adjusted and were enjoined to adjust politically and culturally to English conditions. There was a profusion o f articles, pamphlets and speeches prescribing different alignments o f Jewish and English, immigrant and native identities in this period. It is these diverse projections of the Jewish future in England, their expression and partial realisation in conflicting institutions that will be at the centre of my discussion.
