ABSTRACT
In 1963 the Board of Deputies set up a Special Committee on Research and Studies on Contemporary Anglo-Jewry : and a Research Officer, within the Board’s framework, will, it is hoped, begin to collect basic quantitative data and assist in the planning of special studies. On the current research front Mr. Ernest Krausz’s book on Leeds Jewry has shown what an independent scholar, working without any elaborate research team, can achieve in this field. His more complex study of Jewish suburban life in North London has been wellsupported and is near completion. How a ‘host’ society treats or regards its Jews can tell us much about that society, about its strains and operative ideals. Some of this, of course, emerges from any study of Jewish relations with non-Jews—of the actual incidence of ‘tolerance’ and ‘hostility’.
