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HISTORIANS have given scant recognition to the significant Jewish contribution to the history of the Communist Party in Britain particularly during the period 1935-55.
Mainly centred in the East End of London, the party’s membership among Jews was out of all proportion to the size of the Jewish community in Britain and constituted roughly one tenth of total CP membership. Stepney alone had over 1,000 members in the 1930s.
In 1947 the Stepney CP Borough Committee reported that it had “the highest proportion of party members per capita in Great Britain — one member per 175 of population,” most of whom were Jewish.
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