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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 search of the enigmatic Harris. Digging into a remarkable range of sources, from law records and newspaper reports to ballads and folktales, he follows the traces of Harris's legend across three hundred years of British history. In doing so, he reconstructs the world of Jewish pedlars and criminals across many continents. The lives these figures eked out at the margins of society paint a picture of persistent antisemitism - but also of remarkable integration.
Intellectually bold and deeply humane, The Jewish pedlar takes a new, grassroots approach to the history of Jews in the modern world, shedding light on everyday lives from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust and beyond.
Contents
Part I: The evidence
Introduction
1 Jacob Harris and the murders of 1734: the archive
2 Folklore and naming: in search of Jacob Harris
Part II: The long eighteenth century
3 Jacob Harris in early modern Jewish history
4 Jewish criminality
5 The Jewish pedlar
Part III: The nineteenth century
6 England
7 The British Empire
8 Ireland and Scotland
Part IV: The twentieth century and beyond
9 The global Jewish refugee crisis
10 The Holocaust and culture wars in Sussex
11 Jacob Harris in the long twentieth century
Conclusion
Index
