The Jewish Pedlar: An Untold Criminal History

by Tony Kushner

An imaginative investigation into a historical crime that sheds new light on Jewish history.

In 1734 a pedlar turned smuggler named Jacob Harris slit the throats of three people in a pub in Sussex. This triple-murder, for which he was hanged and gibbeted, remains the most violent crime ever committed by a British Jew. Yet today it is all but forgotten.

In The Jewish pedlar, Tony Kushner goes in search of the enigmatic Harris. Digging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526178028
• ISBN13: 9781526178022
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 384 Pages