Jew[ish]

by Matt Greene

But this all supposes assimilation is a conscious undertaking rather than what naturally happens when you’re part of a community who’ve lived uneventfully enough alongside others for more than a hundred years; that Jewish life is some alien culture that needs weaving into the fabric of British society and is not already an integral part of it. I had two great-grandfathers who fought for Britain in the First World War, so why, in 2005, was I worried about self-ghettoisation?