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The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526178022)
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xAn imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history.
In 1734 a pedlar turned smuggler named Jacob Harris slit the throats of three people in a pub in Sussex. This triple-murder, for which he was hanged and gibbeted, remains the most violent crime ever committed by a British Jew. Yet today it is all but forgotten. In The Jewish pedlar, Tony Kushner goes in search of the enigmatic Harris. Digging into a remarkable range of sources, from law records and newspaper reports to ballads and folktales, he follows the traces of Harris's legend across three hundred years of British history. In doing so, he reconstructs the world of Jewish pedlars and criminals across many continents. The lives these figures eked out at the margins of society paint a picture of persistent antisemitism - but also of remarkable integration. Intellectually bold and deeply humane, The Jewish pedlar takes a new, grassroots approach to the history of Jews in the modern world, shedding light on everyday lives from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust and beyond.Author: Tony Kushner
ISBN-10: 1526178028
ISBN-13: 9781526178022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
By Tony Kushner
xTony Kushner is James Parkes Professor of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. He is the author of numerous books, including Journeys from the Abyss: The Holocaust and Forced Migration from the 1880s to the Present (2017) and Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, Memory and Locality (2009).
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