A Study of Jewish Community and Jewish Literature in East End : A Cultural Studies Approach

我们研究的目的是找出是什么使英国的犹太社区，特别是伦敦东区的犹太社区，如此独特，区别于世界上其他犹太社区，因此，这种独特的性质是如何反映在英国犹太文学。与伦敦东区犹太社区发展有关的历史背景，自1940年以来，犹太人的浪潮已经迁移到该地区。19^<th>世纪。伦敦东区将染上犹太文化的色彩。特别是它的街头文化，意第绪语文化，如果你喜欢的话，与本地伦敦文化相融合，这导致了引人注目的新的城市文化的生产。这种丰富的犹太文化传统在戏剧中得到了最好的体现，罗伯特·克罗斯在他的启发性文章中特别关注史蒂文·伯科夫，这篇文章被收录在我们的最后报告中。而田口哲也则从民族关系的角度阐述了犹太文化融入英国文化的过程，认为犹太人的实验对今天英国多民族、多文化的城市想象做出了巨大贡献。

The purpose of our research was to find out what made the Jewish community in Britain, particularly that of East End, so unique and distinguished from other Jewish communities in the world, and consequently how this unique nature was reflected in British Jewish literature.We have investigated, first of all, the historical background in connection with the development of the Jewish community in East End into which the waves of Jewish people had migrated since the turn of the 19^<th> century. East End was to be tinted with Jewish culture. Particularly its street culture, Yiddish culture if you like, was blended with native cockney culture, which resulted in the production of the strikingly new urban culture.This rich Jewish cultural tradition was best represented in drama and Robert Cross investigated the specific nature of British Jewish playwrights with special attention to Steven Berkoff in his enlightening article which is included in our final report. Tetsuya Taguchi, on the other hand, elucidated the way the Jewish culture assimilated itself into British culture in terms of ethnic relations and concluded that the Jewish experiment contributed a great deal to the making of today's multi-ethnic and multi-cultural urban imagination in Britain.