Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman

<p>Redcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman a physician a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes a Jewish nationalist and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time <i>The Last Anglo-Jewish</i> <i>Gentleman </i>restores him to his place in the history of British science and the British Jewish community.<br /><i> <br /></i>Redcliffe Salaman was also a leading figure in the Anglo-Jewish community in the 20th century. At the same time he was also an incisive critic of the changing character of that community. His groundbreaking book <i> The History and Social Influence of the Potato</i> first published in 1949 and in print ever since is a classic in social history. His wife Nina was a feminist poet essayist and translator of medieval Hebrew poetry. She was the first (and to this day only) woman to deliver a sermon in an Orthodox synagogue in Britain.<br /> <br /><i>The Last-Anglo Jewish Gentleman </i>offers a compelling biography of a unique individual. It also provides insights into the life of English Jews during the late-19th and early-20th centuries and brings to light largely unknown controversies and tensions in Jewish life.</p>