Thursday 6 May 2021 at 2pm. Register here for this free event.

Join us for this fascinating talk by Abigail Green (University of Oxford) and Tom Stammers (University of Durham).

Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy and its feudal origins.

By contrast, the country houses of the Jewish elite that were once ubiquitous in Britain and across continental Europe have largely faded from national memory. What do the fate of these houses, the philanthropic commitments of their owners and the extraordinary art collections that once embellished them tell us about the changing place of Jews and Jewishness in an age of political antisemitism that culminated in genocide, and in the aftermath of the Holocaust?