THE FOURTH ALFRED LEHMANN MEMORIAL LECTURE: Jewish Invisibility Before (and After) Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand
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With apologies this lecture is cancelled but we hope to reschedule it for the coming year and will circulate the information as soon as it is available.
This talk revisits the links between medieval and modern antisemitism by discussing the fears generated in European Christian societies first by forced baptisms and later, by the granting of citizenship rights to Jews – two phenomena that threatened to dissolve clear and identifiable boundaries between Christians and Jews. It connects these fears to religious and economic changes across three epochs: the Middle Ages, the Counter-Reformation, and the post-Emancipation period. Overall, it shows how the expansion of private financial markets reproduced new and old antisemitic tropes by raising the specter of Jewish “invisibility.”

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All welcome – refreshments to follow
Date: 2 December 2021, 17:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Catherine Lewis Lecture Room
Speaker: Professor Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Organising department: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Organiser contact email address: academic.administrator@ochjs.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark