ISBN:
0801861799
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 350 Seiten
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
1999
Series Statement:
Johns Hopkins Jewish studies
Series Statement:
Johns Hopkins Jewish studies
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Antisemitismus
;
Stereotyp
Abstract:
This work focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews from roughly 1660 to 1830. Frank Felsenstein describes the persistence through the period of certain negative biases that, in many cases, can be traced back at least to the late Middle Ages. This work focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews during what is known as the "longer" 18th century, from roughly 1660 to 1830. Frank Felsenstein describes the persistence through the period of certain negative biases that, in many cases, can be traced back at least to the late Middle Ages. He finds evidence of these biases in a range of primary sources - chapbooks, ephemeral pamphlets, tracts, jest books, prints, folklore, proverbial expressions, and so on, as well as in the products of higher culture. With the advent of the 19th century, however, he sees a gradual development of more liberal attitudes in English society, which he sees as evidence of the loosening hold upon the collective imagination of medieval beliefs concerning the Jews.
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