Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society – The 43 Group and Their Fight Against Britain’s Fascists (1946-50): Daniel Sonabend – 7.30pm

The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II. In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in London they found a revived fascist movement inspired by Sir Oswald Mosley and stirring up agitation against Jews and communists. Many felt that the government, the police and even the Jewish Board of Deputies were ignoring the threat; so they had to take matters into their own hands, by any means necessary.

Daniel Sonabend holds degrees in Politics, Intellectual History, and Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Nottingham, University of Cambridge, and Birkbeck College.