ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests a number of subject for study in contemporary Anglo-Jewish history, to indicate a few guiding principles in the treatment of material for publication, and to discuss some of the sources on which such study can be based. Provincial communities are suggested for study for two reasons. First, they often show developments different from those in London. For instance, the proportion of immigrants at the beginning of the present century engaged in factory work in Leeds, and possibly other provincial centres, was very different from that in London. The second reason is that a relatively small community can often be much more easily studied in depth; and there will be old residents, who will be able to fill in the gaps in the written record by personal reminiscence. Even statistical problems can be solved in the small community where someone can literally count all the local Jews and distinguish the doubtful cases.
