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How to be a Jewish triple murderer and almost get away with it
Tony Kushner
Were Jews as much perpetrators as victims of violence in eighteenth century England? Is the rags to riches story of Jewish immigrants a nonsense? Why is there a ‘Jew penis’ in a respectable Glasgow museum? British Jewish pedlars cause havoc on tour -
Stories from Egypt, China and Sierra Leone.
Tony Kushner is James Parkes Professor in the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations and History Department at the University of Southampton. His most recent books are The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys since 1685 (Manchester University Press, 2012), Journeys from the Abyss: The Holocaust and
Forced Migration from the 1880s to the Present (Liverpool University Press, 2017) and Southampton’s Migrant Past and Present (Parkes Institute, 2021). His study of an eighteenth-century Jewish triple murderer is published in May 2025 by Manchester University Press entitled The Jewish Pedlar: A Criminal History. (If you click on this link you can buy the book at a discounted price with the discount code EVENT30 on the checkout screen)
