Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination—A Scattered Nation

Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores how for English travelers, the Jew of the imagination contrasted with the Jew they actually encountered in southern Europe, North Africa and the Levant. Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, this cultural historical study sheds new light not only on English representations of Jews during the period, but more generally on constructions of early modern religious and ethnic identities

Eva Johanna Holmberg is Postdoctoral Researcher of the Academy of Finland at the University of Helsinki and a visiting fellow at the Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London.