Conceiving Difference
Religion, Race and the Jews in Britain, c.1750-1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Feldman (0000-0002-2796-223X, Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 160-186 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbt001 |
| OpenAlex | W2033947603 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
Were Jews were fundamentally different to others while possessing superficial similarities, or was the reverse the case? This article examines different answers to this question as they were debated at three moments in modern Britain: the mid-eighteenth-century controversy over the naturalization of foreign-born Jews, the politics of religious emancipation in the mid nineteenth century and debates on immigration, empire and race in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking the example of the collaboration between the Francis Galton and Joseph Jacobs in the 1880s, the essay shows that at times there was a significant interplay between Jewish and non-Jewish conceptions of the Jews’ difference. Building from this example, the essay proposes that there is a need for the established historiography of antisemitism to be supplemented by new work that is more alive to synchronic contexts and which sets attitudes to Jews alongside other notions of difference.
Antisemitism · Archaeology · Art history · Immigration · Jewish history · Jewish studies · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Sociology · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
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The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Two Nations
New Directions in Anglo-Jewish History
II. The ‘ London Evening-Post ’ and the Jew Bill of 1753
Joseph Jacobs
From political economy to sociology
The Comparative Distribution of Jewish Ability
Esau's Tears
English anti-Semitism
Jews and the English Law
The Jewish Emancipation Controversy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Race Matters
Political Prints in the Age of Hogarth
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |