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British Jewry, antisemitism and the Holocaust: the work and legacy of David Cesarani: an introduction

David Cesarani died in October 2015. With his passing, we lost a friend, a scholar and one of Britain’s most prominent public intellectuals. David did more than anyone else to develop what has come to be known as ‘Holocaust consciousness’ in the United Kingdom. As director of the Wiener Library, as consultant to the All-Party Parliamentary War Crimes Group, as advisor to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and to the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in preparing its Holocaust Galleries, as regular commentator in the press and, not least, as editor of Patterns of Prejudice, David’s energy and conscientiousness ensured that he was an outstanding figure. Today, if Holocaust consciousness seems deeply embedded in British society—in education (for all its shortcomings), in museums and memorials, in commemorative practices around Holocaust Memorial Day, in research institutions and in the more nebulous ‘collective memory’—this is largely thanks to David’s tireless campaigning. David did not begin his career as a Holocaust historian. Rather, he was interested as a graduate student at Cambridge in the history of British Jews and their relationship with Zionism. Together with a small group of like-minded scholars, including Tony Kushner, David Feldman and Bryan Cheyette, he reshaped the history of British Jewry, establishing a critical historiographical approach as the norm, setting the bar high for serious analysis that moved away from hagiography and ‘communal defence’, and placing the history of the Jews firmly in the context of general British history, including imperial and global history. Thus David’s earliest published articles dealt with anti-alienism in England after the First World War, the Jews in Britain during that war, and Zionism, anti-Zionism and antisemitism in Britain in the 1920s. The volume that he edited in 1990, The Making of