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Another man’s faith?: The image of Judaism in the BBC television series Men Seeking God

Another man’s faith?: The image of Judaism in the BBC television series Men Seeking God
Another man’s faith?: The image of Judaism in the BBC television series Men Seeking God
The 1954 BBC television series Men Seeking God saw Labour MP Christopher Mayhew interview devout believers of the world’s great living religions. The present article uses press coverage, Mayhew’s and the BBC’s archives, and the surviving 15 minutes of footage to reconstruct and discuss episode three on Judaism, arguing that it conflates Judaism, Jewishness, Anglo-Jewish and Israeli identity
247-264
Routledge
Jordan, James
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Ewence, Hannah
Spurling, Helen
Jordan, James
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Ewence, Hannah
Spurling, Helen

Jordan, James (2015) Another man’s faith?: The image of Judaism in the BBC television series Men Seeking God. In, Ewence, Hannah and Spurling, Helen (eds.) Visualizing Jews Through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism. New York and Oxford. Routledge, pp. 247-264.

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The 1954 BBC television series Men Seeking God saw Labour MP Christopher Mayhew interview devout believers of the world’s great living religions. The present article uses press coverage, Mayhew’s and the BBC’s archives, and the surviving 15 minutes of footage to reconstruct and discuss episode three on Judaism, arguing that it conflates Judaism, Jewishness, Anglo-Jewish and Israeli identity

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Published date: 2015
Organisations: English

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Local EPrints ID: 408431
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408431
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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 13:32

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Author: James Jordan
Editor: Hannah Ewence
Editor: Helen Spurling

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