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The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tony KushnerPublish date:2025-05-20Pages:344
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526178022ISBN-10:1526178028UPC:9781526178022Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SCK0XE3RSZ

The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History

An imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history.

In 1734 a pedlar turned smuggler named Jacob Harris slit the throats of three people in a pub in Sussex. This triple-murder, for which he was hanged and gibbeted, remains the most violent crime ever committed by a British Jew. Yet today it is all but forgotten.

In The Jewish pedlar, Tony Kushner goes in...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526178022ISBN-10:1526178028UPC:9781526178022Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3206Product ID:SCK0XE3RSZ
Tony Kushner is James Parkes Professor of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton. He is the author of numerous books, including Journeys from the Abyss: The Holocaust and Forced Migration from the 1880s to the Present (2017) and Anglo-Jewry since 1066: Place, Memory and Locality (2009).
Publisher: Manchester University Press

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