Hello everyone,

I am doing a project with the title:

"The Jewish Brigade - Jewish invlovement in the British Army"

And I was hoping people here would be able to direct me to a few relevant sources. Thanks for your time!

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Hello Gaius, two sources are The Brigade by Howard Blum, as mentioned previously by Gerry, and The Jewish Brigade by Morris Beckman.

The Brigade came about very late in the war and served well at Ravenna, Italy.

There were of course soldiers of Jewish faith throughout the British forces. In No.10 Commando, 3 Troop was sometimes referred to (not usually and typically post war) as The Jewish Troop. It was not any criteria that members were Jewish, but they had to be bilingual in German. Most were Jewish because most were Jewish refugees with the majority from Austria. Their role was mainly intelligence and interrogation and never fought as a Troop but were assigned a few at a time to small operations or other Commando units.

A note, to advise when you read accounts written by Jewish writers, be prepared for generous glossing.

No.9

Maybe these links help as well;

http://www.alliedspecialforces.org/3...llofhonour.htm

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...2/sugar13.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A2657117

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A2665244

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Re what I've already said, anything by Sugarman is a very good case in point and does not help history.

No.9

Thank you very much!

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There is the 'AJAX' Museum in London run by Martin Sugarman who perhaps is who No 9 is mentioning above.
Ajax is the Jewish ex-serviceman's association.
On a personal note Martin did I know with some help from me amongst others get together a list of 'Jewish soldiers' at Arnhem...however what this adds to history I'm not sure....