"An Unfortunate Coincidence": Jews and Jewishness in English

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"An Unfortunate Coincidence": Jews and
Jewishness in English Judical Discourse
Didi Herman
Journal of Law and Society, 33 (2). pp. 277-301
2006
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Abstract:
This paper explores the neglected area of representations of Jews
and Jewishness in English legal cases. In considering judicial
knowledge of `the Jew', I ask three primary questions. First, how do
English judges understand and represent `the Jew' and in relation to
what material factors do these understandings and representations
change? Second, how do English judges construct racial knowledge,
what rhetorical technologies are fashioned and deployed? Third, are
the effects of contemporary judicial racializations of Jewishness
different in substance from earlier ones? The purpose of this paper is
to study the encounter between English judges and `the Jew' in the
twentieth century, eschewing a reading that centres `antisemitism' or
`discrimination' in favour of one that focuses on the complex and
contradictory narratives in these judgments and the kinds of work
these narratives do.
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"An Unfortunate Coincidence": Jews and Jewishness in English

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