Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913 : : "A major attack on Jewish freedoms" /

Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913 : : "A major attack on Jewish freedoms" / / David Fraser.

This is the first study of historical attempts by animal welfare groups to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). It details cases from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, many for the first time, in which anti-animal cruelty groups prosecuted those engaged in shechi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Fraser, David,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:North American Jewish Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Jews, Shechita, and the Law
  • 1. Criminalizing Shechita: The Halifax Prosecution of Abraham Levitt, 1913
  • 2. The Aberdeen Shechita Case of 1893: Criminalizing the Jewish Method in Scotland
  • 3. The Mansion House Case: Anti-Shechita in London, 1855
  • 4. Manchester Shechita: Criminalizing Orthodox Judaism 1878 and Beyond
  • 5. The Birkenhead Shechita Cases
  • 6. Criminalizing Shechita Down Under: The Sydney Case
  • 7. Outlawing Shechita in America
  • 8. The Massachusetts Anti-Shechita Story
  • 9. The End (or Not) of the Story: Shechita and the Law in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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