An Unfortunate Coincidence

Name: An Unfortunate Coincidence
Author: Didi (Professor of Law & Social Change, Kent Law School, University of Kent) Herman

Jews, Jewishness, and English Law

Specificaties

Gebonden, 208 blz. | Engels

| e druk, 2011

ISBN13: 9780199229765

Rubricering

Juridisch :

e druk, 2011 9780199229765

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Samenvatting

This book examines how English judges discuss and depict Jews and Jewishness in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is a study of legal judgments in a range of areas, tracing continuities and discontinuities in representations of Jews and Jewishness over time. The book shows the part played by racial and religious understandings in legal decision-making, addressing the place of a minority with a long history in England and within the English cultural imagination. It considers the complex and often contradictory approaches to Jews and Jewishness within judicial discourse, challenging both assumptions about tolerance and neutrality in English law and any simple narrative of 'antisemitism'. While its focus is on the distinctive character of the English context, the book has resonance for thinking more generally about racial and religious representations in law.