British Jewry and the fight against the international white‐slave traffic, 1885–1914

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century Jews from eastern and central Europe became involved in the white‐slave traffic, as migratory prostitution was called at the time. Jews in Britain, which was a point of trans‐shipment for the major vice markets in South America and South Africa, helped to lead an organized international movement to defeat the traffic and thereby to deny this issue to anti‐semites.