Which was the stronger loyalty - to country or to faith? There was nothing to choose. As Rosalind's father said when reorganizing the New West End Synagogue after the Second World War, 'The whole idea is that Judaism is a religion not a race...the English Jews are as much English as other English.'
Taken from
Rosalind Franklin; The Dark Lady of DNA
by Brenda Maddox
HarperCollins Publishers 2002
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