Anti-Semitic Stereotypes

Frank Felsenstein was Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds and is now teaching in the united States.

• List of IllustrationsChronologyPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. StereotypesChapter 2. Jews and DevilsChapter 3. Following Readmission: Evolving StereotypesChapter 4. Wandering Jew, Vagabond JewsChapter 5. ConversionChapter 6. CeremoniesChapter 7. "Ev'ry child hates Shylock"Chapter 8. The Jew BillChapter 9. Toward EmancipationEpilogueNotesBibliography

Intelligent and informative. Two aspects are especially valuable. [Felsenstein] makes more extensive use than previous writers of ephemeral literature-tracts, periodicals, chapbooks, sermons, and so forth; and he analyses pictorial evidence, which in practice means satirical prints, with as much care as the written word. -- John Gross Times Literary Supplement Felsenstein's book shows just how widespread and persistent... stereotyping was and makes available for further analysis a considerable amount of new information, especially pictorial evidence, which he analyzes brilliantly. -- James Shapiro Shakespeare Quarterly Felsenstein's enormously absorbing, fluent yet provocative study ultimately questions the defeat of the image of Jewish 'Otherness'... If the traditional Whig version of history would point towards the triumph of a cosy English tolerance, Felsenstein's study provides powerful support to those scholars of minorities in Britain who would point to the persistence of prejudice. -- Mark Levene Notes and Queries A luminous and scholarly survey of a familiar subject from a fresh perspective. -- Michael Shinagel The Age of Johnson An excellent example of intelligent, learned, and informative cultural history. -- Vincent Carretta Albion