The Centre for Jewish Studies
University of Manchester
Extra-Mural Lectures 1998-99
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Mar 2nd, Colin Richmond: James Parkes and the Jews:
a hero ahead of his time
Abstract:
Professor Richmond will talk about the unknown Parkes and will consider:
what made him the man he was; what got him into working against antisemitism
and interested in matters Jewish; how he responded to the shoah; how prophetic
was he [as well as far more knowledgeable and understanding than anyone
else] in the 1930s; and why no one knows very much about him. In short,
why he is not an English Hero.
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Colin Richmond, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre, was until
recently Professor of Medieval History at the University of Keele. His publications
include papers on medieval English Jewry; he co-edited Belsen in History
and Memory (1997) and is writing a biography of James Parkes.
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