This book examines the depiction of Jews and Jewishness in modern English law, revealing the role of racial and religious understandings in legal decision-making. It challenges both assumptions about tolerance and neutrality in English law and any simple narrative of anti-Semitism, charting the ambivalent status of Jewish identity in the law. INDICE: 1: Introduction; 2: 'An Unfortunate Coincidence': Race, Nation,and Character; 3: If Only I Knew: Race and Faith in the Law of Trusts; 4: 'She is and Will Forever Remain a Jew': Children and the Courts; 5: 'We Live in the Age of the Holocaust of the Jews'; 6: 'The Wandering Jew Has No Nation': Jewishness and Race Relations Law; 7: 'The Christian Church Will Admit Children Regardless of Who Their Parents Are': The Jewish Free School Case and Other Final Thoughts
- ISBN: 978-0-19-922976-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 06/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés