Antisemitism and English Culture

Book sale (noon - 7 p.m)

'Setting the Agenda': panel discussion, chaired by Lynne Segal (Birkbeck College): contributors include Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading); Jonathan Elukin, Trinity College; Antony Lerman (Institute for Jewish Policy Research); Paul Lawrence Rose (Pennsylvania State University)

Guy Galazka (University of Paris Sorbonne), 'The image of the Jews of Palestine in nineteenth-century travel narratives'

James Renton (University College, London), 'Racial and colonial contexts: Britain and Zionism, 1917-1939'

Rachel Cohen (Brunel University), 'Zionism and Anti-Semitism: Debates in the British women's movement in the 1970s and 1980s'.

Jacob Selwood (Georgia State University), 'Antisemitism and anti-stranger sentiment in early modern London'

Laura Jacobs (Birkbeck College, London), 'John Foxe (1516/17-1587) and English anti-Semitism'

Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of  Turku), '"Not without moist eyes betweene a Iew and a Christian": A friendship between a Jew and an Englishman in an early modern travel narrative'

7pm - 9pm

Plenary event 1 [with wine reception], introduced by David Latchman, Master of Birkbeck College: Anthony Julius, 'Antisemitism and English Culture' at Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, Birkbeck College

Sam Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University), 'Arch antisemite? Arnold White and his late nineteenth-century Jewish encounter'

Lizzie White (University of Birmingham), 'Unintentional antisemitism? Literary representations of Jews and Jewishness, 1890-1930: Oscar Wilde and Alfred Douglas'

Anne Summers (London Metropolitan University), '"I have written to Madame Dreyfus": British women and the Dreyfus Affair; some ambiguities of philo-semitism'

Heather Blurton (University of York), 'Narratives of ritual crucifixion in twelfth-century England'

Emily Rose (Cambridge), title TBC

Hannah Johnson (University of Pittsburgh), 'Interpretation's Work: Memory, Ethics, and Scholarship on the
Ritual Murder Accusation'

Panel 5: Reshaping Antisemitism in the Twentieth Century

Maryanne Rhett (Washington State University), 'Edwin Montagu and the Anti-Semitism of the War Government'

Bernhard Dietz (Humboldt University, Berlin), 'The "consensus antisemitism" of the "New Conservatives" of the British interwar period'

Antero Holmila (Royal Holloway, London), 'A thin crust of toleration: the British press, the Jews and antisemitic thinking in the Holocaust's aftermath, 1945-1948'

Panel 6: Philosemitism and Antisemitism

Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London), 'Philosemitism and Republicanism in Seventeenth-Century England'

Jonathan Karp (Binghamton University, of the State University of New York), 'Mercantile Philosemitism in Eighteenth-Century British Political Economy'

Arthur Kiron (University of Pennsylvania), 'Holy Lands, Human Labors: Chartism, Conversion and the Jews in early Victorian England.'

Eliane Glaser (Birkbeck College, London), 'Readmission and English Law'

Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmith's College, London), '"The great trappaner of England": Thomas Violet and the Jews'

Panel 8: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Antisemitism

Lloyd Kermode (California State University), 'Gender, sexuality and usury in early modern London'

Jeremy Webster (Ohio University), 'Antisemitism, Christian mythology, and English manhood in Romantic literature'

Paul Steinberg (Birkbeck College, University of London), '"Jewish, gay, f**ked": Some representations of the Jewish boy in recent British film'

Glenda Abramson (Oxford University), 'Where to Draw the Line: Jewish Stereotypes in British Political Cartoons'

Efraim Sicher (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) & Linda Weinhouse (Community College of Baltimore County), 'Under postcolonial eyes: figuring out the Jew in contemporary English culture'

Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University), 'Fantasies and realities of antisemitism in Kindertransport writing'

Panel 10: Jewry and the Nineteenth-Century Writer

Nadia Valman (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Bad Jew/Good Jewess: Gender and Semitic discourse in nineteenth-century England'

Sarah Gracombe (Stonehill College), 'Jewishness and cultural Englishness in the novels of Antony Trollope'

Meri-Jane Rochelson (Florida International University), 'Israel Zangwill and English antisemitism at the turn of the twentieth century'

Panel 11: British Jews Write Back!

Peter Lawson (University of Tampere), 'Anglo-Jewish poets and antisemitism'

Sue Vice (University of Sheffield), 'Dramatizing Jewishness'

Cheryl Malcolm Alexander (University of Gdansk), 'Fictions of  Family, Friends, and X-Men'

Edna Nahson (Jewish Theological Seminary, New York), 'Philo-Semitism, Anti-Semitism, and Israel Zangwill on the London Stage'

John Klier (University College London), 'The Mansion House Protest of 1882: Philosemitism or "the English Disease"'

Gina Glasman (SUNY Binghampton), 'Nineteenth-century social science and London's Jewish poor'

Panel 13: Writing the Wandering Jew

Toni Wein (California State University, Fresno), 'Peddling Art: The Economy of the Wandering Jew'

Giles Bergel (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'The Wandering Jew's Chronicle, 1634-1830'

Todd Endelman (University of Michigan), 'Antisemitism and Jewish "self-hatred": the case of Leonard Woolf'

David Fowler (Clare Hall, Cambridge University), 'Antisemitism in British Youth Culture Between the Wars'

William Rubinstein (University of Wales, Aberystwyth),'Jews and Anti-Semitism in the Classical British Detective Story, 1900-1960'