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Zusatztext Herman has offered a though-ptovoking thesis, and has done a valuable service ind rawing attention to, and opening up, an important and fascinating subject. Informationen zum Autor Didi Herman is Professor of Law & Social Change at the University of Kent, UK. She has published widely on the subject of Jews, Jewishness and English law, and is also the author of Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Legal Equality, (University of Toronto Press, 1994), The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right, (University of Chicago Press, 1997), and, with Doris Buss, Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right's International Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2003). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
