Selected books by Pears Institute staff and Associates.
A collection of original and provocative essays that illuminate the historic relationship between Jews, liberalism and antisemitism in Europe, the Ottoman empire and the North American Atlantic World.
This book charts the fraught relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights protection in the second half of the twentieth century.
The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews. Marc Volovici offers a new understanding, turning to German to illuminate the questions and dilemmas that largely defined the experience of European Jews in the age of nationalism.
The first monograph to analyse the Bolshevik response to antisemitism. Brendan McGeever also uncovers the explosive overlap between revolutionary politics and antisemitism, and the capacity for class to become racialized in a moment of crisis. Awarded the 2020 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize for History.
Scholars and artists examine the role of money in Jewish life and the place of Jews – real and imagined – in commerce, capitalism and finance up to the present day. Produced to complement the 2019 exhibition at the Jewish Museum London developed in collaboration with the Pears Institute.
Historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Contributors explore the causes and impact of past boycott movements and examine the current Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign directed against Israel
This volume is the first collective attempt to address the history of notions of race in the humanities as a whole. It brings together some of the most distinguished scholars in their respective fields.
This book offers a new contribution to the history of multiculturalism in Britain. It shows how friendship and co-operation between Christian and Jewish women changed lives and, as the Second World War approached, actually saved them.
In an age of populism and nationalism it is more important than ever to understand the connections between antisemitism and other forms of racialization.
Professor David Feldman, Director