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

我们研究的目的是要找出是什么使英国的犹太社区，特别是东区的犹太社区如此独特和不同于世界上其他的犹太社区，从而使这种独特的性质在英国犹太文学中得到反映。首先，我们考察了19世纪之交以来犹太人浪潮迁移到的东区犹太社区发展的历史背景。东区将带有犹太文化的色彩。特别是它的街头文化，可以说是意第绪语文化，与当地的伦敦文化相融合，产生了惊人的新的城市文化。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了史蒂文·伯克夫，这篇文章被纳入了我们的最终报告。另一方面，田口哲也从种族关系的角度阐述了犹太文化如何融入英国文化，并得出结论，犹太实验对英国今天多种族、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.