Equality, Race and the Jews in Britain c.1750-1900
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Equality, Race and the Jews in Britain c.1750-1900 Professor David Feldman, Director Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism University of London Professor FeldmanÕs lecture will focus on debates during the mid-18th century and 20th century in Britain on the Jews legal and political status, the question of whether Jews constituted a race, and if so, what sort of a race they were. During this period, both non-Jews and Jews returned to this question in the context of a series of political, theological and scientific debates. Many historians have sorted protagonists into opposing camps Ð Jews versus non-Jews, antisemites versus the JewsÕ friends, racists opposed to non-racists. This approach has obscured some significant and surprising points of agreement and co-operation between figures conventionally assigned to opposite sides. Rather than pursue lineages of antisemitism and philosemitism , Professor Feldman will discuss a more open-ended, less moralising inquiry into the ways the JewsÕ difference from non-Jews has been understood through time. |
| Date and time: | November 8, 2012 3:45 PM |
| Location: | Area on Campus: Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave., Room 168, Ohio State campus |
| Contact: | Lori Fireman |
| Phone Number: | 614-292-0700 |
| Event category: | Melton Center for Jewish Studies |
| Event Type: | Lecture |
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