ABSTRACT

This article examines the relationship between the ‘othering’ of Irish and Jewish communities in London up to the end of the 1920s, and punitive action and harassment against these minorities on the part of the British state. Beginning by looking at early articulations of antisemitic and anti-Irish prejudice, it will consider how the associations of both groups with radical politics and transgressive behaviour led to the negative involvement of the Metropolitan Police in the lives of Jewish and Irish Londoners on a day-to-day level at the end of the Victorian era and into the Edwardian period. The situation was then exacerbated through the experience of war, and the revolutionary events in Dublin in 1916 and Petrograd in 1917. Irish and Jewish communities, as transnational diasporas, were associated with international subversion, and militant action in London itself. The article will discuss the campaign waged by the state in its various manifestations between 1918 and 1922, including arrest and imprisonment without trial and deportation to Ireland and Eastern Europe. It will conclude by identifying how the actions of the state against Irish and Jewish communities anticipated action against other minorities over the course of the twentieth century.

摘要

本文探讨了截至 1920 年代末伦敦爱尔兰和犹太社区的“他者”与英国政府对这些少数群体的惩罚性行动和骚扰之间的关系。从研究反犹太主义和反爱尔兰偏见的早期表述开始，它将考虑这两个群体与激进政治和违法行为的联系如何导致大都会警察在一天内对犹太和爱尔兰伦敦人的生活产生负面影响——今天的水平在维多利亚时代末期进入爱德华时代。战争经历以及 1916 年都柏林和 1917 年彼得格勒的革命事件加剧了这种情况。爱尔兰和犹太社区作为跨国侨民，与国际颠覆、和伦敦本身的激进行动。文章将讨论国家在 1918 年至 1922 年间以各种表现形式发动的运动，包括未经审判的逮捕和监禁以及被驱逐到爱尔兰和东欧。它将通过确定国家针对爱尔兰和犹太社区的行动如何预期在 20 世纪期间针对其他少数群体的行动来结束。