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RUSSELL, Charles, and Harry Samuel LEWIS. The Jew in London: a Study of Racial Character and Present Day Conditions. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.
First edition of the infamous Arkell map of Jewish population in the East End of London. George Arkell had been the cartographer responsible for the production of Booth’s poverty maps of London, and Arkell used these as a basis for the current map which may be held up as an example of misleading statistical cartography. Fleeing the resurgence of pogroms in eastern Europe and Tsarist persecution in Russia, many Jews had fled to London in the second half of the 19th century. At that time Britain had no restrictions on immigration, and estimates suggest that some 7000 Jews arrived in Britain per year between 1881-1900, by which time the Jewish population in the East End had risen to 135,000. The map shows the Jewish population in blue, but the overwhelming red graphic might give the casual viewer the impression that the East End was being dominated by the new arrivals. Even read correctly, the map can be construed as alarmist: the dark blue colour denotes an area with a Jewish concentration of 95-100%; Booth’s poverty maps used the same dark blue for areas demarcated ‘vicious, semi-criminal poverty.’ In 1905 the Aliens Act was passed, designed specifically to halt Jewish immigration. Barber, London: a history in maps (2012), p.236; Bryars & Harper, A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps (2014), pp.22-25.
8vo (187 x 125mm). First edition. Half-title. Large folding chromolithographic map ‘Jewish East London’ by George E. Arkell, 4pp. ads for Greenberg & Co, Jewish publisher (20mm tear without loss to crease fold of map at gutter, insignificant light marginal creasing to right-hand edge with associated tiny nick to creasefold, very faint browning to marginal extremities of map, cracking to textblock between b8 and c1, the latter leaf with tiny marginal spotting and dust-soiling). Original blue publisher’s cloth, top edge gilt (small spot to spine, extremities lightly rubbed, head- and tailcaps more heavily).
First edition of the infamous Arkell map of Jewish population in the East End of London. George Arkell had been the cartographer responsible for the production of Booth’s poverty maps of London, and Arkell used these as a basis for the current map which may be held up as an example of misleading statistical cartography. Fleeing the resurgence of pogroms in eastern Europe and Tsarist persecution in Russia, many Jews had fled to London in the second half of the 19th century. At that time Britain had no restrictions on immigration, and estimates suggest that some 7000 Jews arrived in Britain per year between 1881-1900, by which time the Jewish population in the East End had risen to 135,000. The map shows the Jewish population in blue, but the overwhelming red graphic might give the casual viewer the impression that the East End was being dominated by the new arrivals. Even read correctly, the map can be construed as alarmist: the dark blue colour denotes an area with a Jewish concentration of 95-100%; Booth’s poverty maps used the same dark blue for areas demarcated ‘vicious, semi-criminal poverty.’ In 1905 the Aliens Act was passed, designed specifically to halt Jewish immigration. Barber, London: a history in maps (2012), p.236; Bryars & Harper, A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps (2014), pp.22-25.
8vo (187 x 125mm). First edition. Half-title. Large folding chromolithographic map ‘Jewish East London’ by George E. Arkell, 4pp. ads for Greenberg & Co, Jewish publisher (20mm tear without loss to crease fold of map at gutter, insignificant light marginal creasing to right-hand edge with associated tiny nick to creasefold, very faint browning to marginal extremities of map, cracking to textblock between b8 and c1, the latter leaf with tiny marginal spotting and dust-soiling). Original blue publisher’s cloth, top edge gilt (small spot to spine, extremities lightly rubbed, head- and tailcaps more heavily).
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