Event time:
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Online
Speaker:
Bryan Cheyette, Professor Emeritus of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Reading, and a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton
Event description:
The decline of the three-volume “library” edition of the novel led to the growth of popular fiction from the 1890s onwards. My talk will explore the expansion of print culture which facilitated the mass circulation of political antisemitism in Britain before the First World War. The same popular culture promoted equally racialized but philosemitic images of “the Jew.” Issues which I will raise include the tension between “race” and culture, the growth of Jewish conspiracy theories before the Protocols, and the connection between a new mass-produced medium and everyday antisemitism.
Admission:
Free but register in advance
Contact:
Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism