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WORKSHOP “A Nice Jewish Boy who Believes in Jesus:” Fear, Fury, and the Campaign against Messianic Judaism in Britain

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement, and Education (BRIDGE); Program in Jewish Culture & Society; Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies
Location
109A English Building
Date
Dec 12, 2019   12:00 pm  
Speaker
Gavin Schaffer (University of Birmingham, UK)
Contact
Brett A. Kaplan
E-Mail
bakaplan@illinois.edu
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Gavin Schaffer is Senior Lecturer in British History at the University of Birmingham (UK). The author of Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 and The Vision of a Nation: Making Multiculturalism on British Television, 1960-1980, Gavin is also the co-organizer (with Brett Ashley Kaplan) of the upcoming conference at Birmingham, Comparative Approaches to Black and Jewish Studies in Britain and the U.S. Gavin’s visit and the conference are supported by a generous grant from BRIDGE.

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