Minorities and the First World War

Hannah Ewence is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Chester, UK. She is the co-editor of Whatever Happened to British-Jewish Studies? (2012) and Visualizing Jews through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism (2015).  Tim Grady is Reader in Modern History at the University of Chester, UK. He is the author of German Jews and the First World War in History and Memory (2009), as well as the forthcoming book: A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War (2017).

1. Introduction. Minority History: From War to Peace; Hannah Ewence and Tim Grady.-  Part One: “Friendly” Minorities in War and Peace.- 2. Tasting the King’s Salt:  Muslims, Contested Loyalties and the First World War; Humayun Ansari.- 3. Between Friends and Enemies: The Dilemma of Jews in the Final Stages of the War; Sarah Panter.- 4. Bridging the Gap between ‘War’ and ‘Peace’: The Case of Belgian Refugees in Britain; Hannah Ewence.- Part Two: “The Wartime “Enemy”: From Internment to Freedom.- 5. ‘Enemy Aliens’ in Scotland in a Global Context, 1914-1919: Germanophobia, Internment, Forgetting; Stefan Manz.- 6. The Enemy Within?: Armenians, Jews, the Military Crises of 1915 and the Genocidal Origins of the ‘Minorities Question’; Mark Levene.- 7. Black, Arab and South Asian Colonial Britons in the Intersections between War and Peace: The 1919 Seaport Riots in Perspective; Jacqueline Jenkinson.- Part Three: Remembering and Forgetting Minoritiesin Wartime.- 8. Race and the Legacy of the First World War in French Anti-Colonial Politics of the 1920s; David Murphy.- 9. Memory, Storytelling and Minorities: A Case Study of Jews in Britain and the First World War; Tony Kushner.- 10. Selective Remembering: Minorities and the Remembrance of the First World War in Britain and Germany; Tim Grady.- 11. Afterword; Panikos Panayi