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This book examines the depiction of Jews and Jewishness in modern English law, revealing the role of racial and religious understandings in legal decision-making. It challenges both assumptions about tolerance and neutrality in English law and any simple narrative of anti-Semitism, charting the ambivalent status of Jewish identity in the law.

   INDICE:

1: Introduction; 2: 'An Unfortunate Coincidence': Race, Nation,and Character; 3: If Only I Knew: Race and Faith in the Law of Trusts; 4: 'She is and Will Forever Remain a Jew': Children and the Courts; 5: 'We Live in the Age of the Holocaust of the Jews'; 6: 'The Wandering Jew Has No Nation': Jewishness and Race Relations Law; 7: 'The Christian Church Will Admit Children Regardless of Who Their Parents Are': The Jewish Free School Case and Other Final Thoughts

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Students and scholars of legal history; those interested in the history of the Jewish community in Britain and in the history of anti-semitism in the West

Detalles del artículo

• Páginas : 208
• Editorial : Oxford University
• Idioma : Inglés
• Fecha de Publicación : 06/01/2011
• ISBN: 9780199229765
• Encuadernación : Cartoné
• Nº Volúmenes : 1
• País de Publicación : Reino Unido (INGLATERRA)