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Perish judah9/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.” ![]() I and my young women will also fast as you do. “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. The logic of the 62 Group was, 'Well if the law isn’t on our side and we’re getting beaten while fascists are calling for our demise and destruction, then we have to physically protect ourselves and scare them away.“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. ![]() "But back then, fascists were deliberately marching in Jewish areas. "There was a lot of controversy at the time about the tactics of the 62 Group because they were not afraid to use violence," Ridley Road writer Sarah Solemani told PBS Masterpiece. They were called the 62 Group (after 1962, not the number of Jews in the organization). In response to this increased fascist and antisemitic activity, taking inspiration from the 43 Group, Harry Bidney, a Jewish Soho night club manager, gathered a group of Jews, once again, to fight back. For example, in July 1962, Colin Jordan held a rally in Trafalgar Square where he praised Hitler, the "Sieg Heil" Nazi salute was made, and slogans like "Perish Judah" were shouted in the crowd. Twelve years later, fascist groups were once again on the rise. The group eventually swelled to significantly more than 43 members, and they voluntarily disbanded in 1950, when they felt the threat had dissipated. In response, 43 Jews met at at Maccabi House, a north London Jewish community center, and decided to meet fascist intimidation with anti-fascist violence, forming the 43 Group. Many areas of East London were known to be unsafe for Jews simply walking there could mean running into a fascist group and being beaten up." In fact, by 1946 there were as many as 40 weekly fascist meetings and rallies taking place in the city every week. There were weekly fascist rallies in Ridley Road Market in Hackney, a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in East London. As Jewish culture site Hey Alma explains, " the far-right continued to organize and speak publicly, spreading anti-immigrant and anti-Jewish messages. She explained, "He'd been an active anti-fascist all his life and when he mentioned the 62 Group, a Jewish organisation which formed in 1962 to confront a resurgence in fascism in London, I knew I had to find a way to tell the Group’s story-how, less than 20 years after the end of the Second World War, British fascism had reared up again."Īt the end of World War II, fascist groups were emboldened in the UK. ![]() Plus, Rabbi Lehrer (Allan Corduner) in Ridley Road is inspired by the real Rabbi Leslie Hardman, a Jewish army chaplain who was at the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.īloom specifically drew on British Jewish history for her novel, and the story was sparked by meeting an elderly British Jewish man. However, Sol and Jack are broadly based on Jews who decided to fight back against the neo-Nazi movement in Britain. Vivian's uncle, 62 Group leader Soly Malinovsky (Eddie Marsan), and boyfriend, Jack Morris (Tom Varey), who goes undercover into the NSM, are also not specific depictions of historical figures. The protagonist of the show, Vivian Epstein (Agnes O'Casey), is not directly based on a real person-though she is the main character of Jo Bloom's 2014 novel Ridley Road that the show is adapted from. ![]()
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