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Meet the Winstens: A ‘Downstart’ Anglo-Jewish family
This chapter reconstructs Ruth Harrison’s family background. It shows that Harrison was born into an avant-garde family of Anglo-Jewish artists and...
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From Indian History to the History of Civilisations
The final decade of Panikkar’s life was a period of intense intellectual revision, in the context of growing concerns for Indian unity and foreign...
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Cultural Landscapes and Deep History
In this chapter, examples of how some countries use archaeology, place-name studies and long-term history as a basis for claims on land, based on the...
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Manuscript Marginalia in a Fourteenth-Century Torah Commentary and the History of Jewish Reading: Ephraim ben Shabbetai on Eleazar Ashkenazi’s Revealer of Secrets
This article explores marginal notations in a manuscript of a resolutely rationalist commentary on the Torah written by the barely known...
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Dynamics of Privacy at Sea: An Introduction to Privacy Studies in Maritime History
This chapter introduces the Privacy at Sea volume, demonstrating the contributions of privacy studies in researching early modern and maritime...
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“The Eastern Question Will Never Be Solved”: The Perseverance of History
This chapter concludes my study by noting the ways in which the immediate post-Midlothian years were characterized by Liberals’ attempts to jibe...
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The Global Rise, Fall and Forgetting of Eugenics
Eugenics was a set of ideas which swept the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century focused on improving humankind. This was a...
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‘Thou Hast Given Us Home and Freedom, Mother England’: Anglo-Jewish Gratitude, Patriotism, and Service During and After the First World War
This chapter seeks to add to the layered but elliptical historiography on Anglo-Jewry and the First World War by exploring the distinctive and...
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Conclusions
This chapter offers a summary on translation as a figure of history applied for describing the relations of power in understanding and...
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Introduction
I do not pretend that mine is a detached history. This volume is a partisan history. I agree with Saul Friedländer that ‘a kind of purely scientific...
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Bracketing Antisemitism: The Discourse and Its Semantic Distinctions
In this chapter I retrace the historical “othering” of the Jews through a discussion of the semantic changes in antisemitic discourse centered on the...
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Wither Philosemitic Europe? Antisemitism after the “Golden Era”
The defeat of the Labour Party in the 2019 general election in Britain has put to rest the tumultuous “Corbyn Affair” (2015–2019). Whether Labour...
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‘A Hellish Nightmare’: The Swedish Press and the Construction of Early Holocaust Narratives, 1945–1950
This study examines how the Swedish press responded to and portrayed the Holocaust immediately after the war. The liberation of the camps, the role...
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Mediatized Witnessing, Spectacles of Pain, and Reenacting Suffering: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarian Cinema
Focusing on the conception, production, distribution (and disappearance) of Ravished Armenia (1919) and Alice in Hungerland (1921), two silent films...
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The Brazen Horde: British Propagandists and the Course of German History
The study of history was fundamental to British propagandists’ understanding of Germany and their conception of the Nazi mind. Despite strongly...
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The Indian Challenge: Indology and New Conceptions of Christianity as ‘Religion’ at the End of the Nineteenth Century
This chapter argues that religion as a universal concept was not a European invention but had a global history. In the late-nineteenth century, a new...
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Leaving Egypt: Rethinking 1956 Through Italian Departures
Events surrounding the Suez conflict are often portrayed as causally linked to the displacement of Italian and other foreign residents from Egypt....
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Walking the Even Tenor of Our Ways: Liberty and Tradition in Isaac Leeser’s Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights
This article explores a collection of letters to the Philadelphia Gazette written by Isaac Leeser, a prominent nineteenth-century writer and American...
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Conquest, Treaties and Self-Determination
Until after World War I, conquest and the treaties that followed victory on the battlefield were widely invoked in claiming territory. It was on this...
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Scotland’s Foreigners: Making Identities in Scotland
When migrants came to Scotland from continental Europe in the late nineteenth century and afterwards, they came with identities which in themselves...