This lecture will explore the relative position of Jews and Muslims in British society. Is Islamophobia, for example, the ‘new antisemitism’? Have Muslims replaced Jews as a marginal minority? And how do Jews and Muslims view one-another? By exploring politics, the media and the responses of ordinary people, the lecture will analyze a growing and important issue: how, in multi-cultural and multi-religiousBritain, do large ethno-religious minorities get on?
Tony Kushner is Professor of History and Director of the Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at theUniversityofSouthampton.
He has written widely on British Jewish history, the Holocaust, refugee history, history and memory, and the history of anti-Semitism and racism. His most recent book is The Battle of Britishness: Migrant Journeys, 1685 to the Present (Manchester University Press, 2012).
