New publication: The Jewish pedlar: An untold criminal history
an imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history
by Professor Tony Kushner (Southampton)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
This is the first book on the history of Jewish criminality or peddling, providing a missing piece in the history of the Jewish diaspora. Rooted in the fascinating and shocking historical murder case of Jacob Harris, the author uses this intriguing true crime to provide a global, transnational history of the Jews from the bottom up, from the eighteenth century to the post-Holocaust.
Written by one of the UK’s most eminent Jewish historians, Tony Kushner, who is a professor at the University of Southampton and head of the Parkes Institute on Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations.
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