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Out of the Ghetto

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by Joe Jacobs

My youth in the East End: communism and fascism, 1913-1939

An autobiographical account of the early years of a life long militant. Joe Jacobs, who died in 1977, had been working for many years on this story. It is not just another local history nor is it just the autobiography of a workingman, although it is both of these things. It is one man’s highly individual view of a major period of political change seen from a very special corner of England. The General Strike, the Great Depression and above all the rise of Fascism colour this story. The British Communist Party at grass roots level is one of the book’s major features.

Joe Jacobs was born the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants and grew up in the Jewish district of Whitechapel in the heart of London’s East End.

 

Publisher: Phoenix Press
Published: 1991
Format: Book
Binding: Paperback
Interior: Black & White
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780948984181

Out of the Ghetto: My Youth in the East End, Communism and Fascism, 1913-39 by Joe Jacobs