Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 18551913

"A major attack on Jewish freedoms"

David Fraser (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2018
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-742-7 (ISBN)

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The book examines historical attempts by animal welfare groups, in Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). For the first time, the book studies these prosecutions, brought in the name of “humanity”, that reveal, an underlying, unrelenting, and inescapable antisemitism.

This is the first study of historical attempts by anti-animal cruelty groups to prosecute those involved in the killing of animals for food using the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). It details cases from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, many for the first time, in which animal welfare groups prosecuted those engaged in shechita as part of their attempts to introduce compulsory stunning of animals before slaughter. Despite claims to the contrary, this study offers clear evidence of underlying, unrelenting antisemitic motivations in the prosecutions, and highlights the ways in which a basic idea of innate Jewish cruelty was always juxtaposed with an overtly Christian ideal of humane treatment of animals across time and borders.

David Fraser is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on legal aspects of the Shoah and modern Jewish legal history in the Anglo-American world. He has previously published the book “Honorary Protestants”: The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 (2015).

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Jews, Shechita, and the Law
2. Criminalizing Shechita: The Halifax Prosecution of Abraham Levitt, 1913
3. The Aberdeen Shechita Case of 1893: Criminalizing the Jewish Method in Scotland
4. The Mansion House Case: Anti-Shechita in London, 1855
5. Manchester Shechita: Criminalizing Orthodox Judaism 1878 and Beyond
6. The Birkenhead Shechita Cases
7. Criminalizing Shechita Down Under: The Sydney Case
8. Outlawing Shechita in America
9. The Massachusetts Anti-Shechita Story
10. The End (or Not) of the Story: Shechita and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913

Erscheinungsdatum	03.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	North American Jewish Studies
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 238 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-61811-742-4 / 1618117424
ISBN-13	978-1-61811-742-7 / 9781618117427
Zustand	Neuware