Feldman, David (2013) Conceiving difference: religion, race and the Jews in Britain, c.1750-1900. History Workshop Journal , ISSN 1363-3554.
Abstract
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.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Nineteenth-Century Studies, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2013 17:23 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:08 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/8805 |
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