THE 1920s and 1930s were decades of seismic importance in Jewish affairs. During the former, antisemitism had begun to rear its malign head within the context of a capitalist system still recovering from the ravages of the first world war, while during the latter it would go on to reveal the very worst of the human condition.

As antisemitism spread across Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, Benny Leonard and Jack ‘Kid’ Berg became symbols of hope and resilience, writes JOHN WIGHT

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