Communal Networks: Taking Care of their Own and Efforts to Secure the Community's Reputation

‘The reputation of the community’, noted the JBG in 1893,

is obviously a subject which touches vitally and directly all classes, and it is certain that the fair fame of the Jews in England is intimately bound up with, if indeed it does not directly depend on, the manner in which they apply themselves to grapple with this question of the care of their poor, aggravated as it has become in recent years by the immigration consequent on the cruel Russian persecutions. ¹