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Free Thinking: Links between Judaism and Christianity

Links between Judaism and Christianity

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Links between Judaism and Christianity

Rector Giles Fraser tells Matthew Sweet how a crisis led to discovering his Jewish roots.

When Occupy was moved from the steps of St Paul's, Giles Fraser began questioning aspects of his church. It led him to explore his family's history and Jewish roots in Liverpool.

From the Jewishness of the New Testament to attempts by 19th- and early 20th-century British Jews to blend in to Christian England, Giles Fraser shows how the two religions have a vexed history but are also surprisingly interconnected in his new book called Chosen. 

Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, and David Feldman, Professor of History and Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London, join Giles Fraser and Matthew Sweet to explore this relationship between Judaism and Christianity through medieval, early modern and modern history.

Producer: Eliane Glaser

You can find a playlist of programmes exploring religious belief on the Free Thinking website  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03mwxlp which includes 
Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, Howard Jacobson and Bari Weiss on Jewish Identity in 2020  
Simon Schama and Devorah Baum on Jewish history and jokes 
and Frank Skinner, Jeet Thayil and Yaa Gyasi on Writing about Faith

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