With Hope, Farewell was Alexander Baron's first novel to explore Jewish
working class life in fiction, and predated his The Lowlife, being
published first in 1952.
Mark Strong endures petty anti-Semitism but achieves his wartime
ambition to become a fighter pilot. After the war, blighted by injury
and a desolation brought on by conflict, Mark and his wife, Ruth, seek
to set up home in Hackney. ‘The bombing of the East End during the war
had sent thousands of homeless Jews outwards in wave after wave,’ Baron
asserts in this novel. ‘They had penetrated to every corner of Hackney.’
They face organised anti-Semitism, and the climax of the novel comes
amid a rally in Dalston by British Nazis, still not cowed by their
co-thinkers’ war defeat.
With Hope, Farewell - Alexander Baron
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