David Fraser

Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913

"A Major Attack on Jewish Freedoms"

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Produktbeschreibung

The book examines historical attempts by animal welfare groups, in Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). For the first time, the book studies these prosecutions, brought in the name of ¿humanity¿, that reveal, an underlying, unrelenting, and inescapable antisemitism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781618117427
• ISBN-10: 1618117424
• Artikelnr.: 50688111

Autorenporträt

David Fraser is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on legal aspects of the Shoah and modern Jewish legal history in the Anglo-American world. He has previously published the book ¿Honorary Protestants¿: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Jews, Shechita, and the Law 2. Criminalizing
Shechita: The Halifax Prosecution of Abraham Levitt, 1913 3. The Aberdeen
Shechita Case of 1893: Criminalizing the Jewish Method in Scotland 4. The
Mansion House Case: Anti-Shechita in London, 1855 5. Manchester Shechita:
Criminalizing Orthodox Judaism 1878 and Beyond 6. The Birkenhead Shechita
Cases 7. Criminalizing Shechita Down Under: The Sydney Case 8. Outlawing
Shechita in America 9. The Massachusetts Anti-Shechita Story 10. The End
(or Not) of the Story: Shechita and the Law in the Anglo-American World,
1855-1913