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Daniel Mendoza, Professor of Pugilism: How a Sephardic Jew in 18th-Century Britain Became One of the World’s First Sports Stars
March 30, 2015 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Please join us on March 30, 4 pm., in the Judaica Suite, second floor, Library East for “Daniel Mendoza, Professor of Pugilism: How a Sephardic Jew in Eighteenth-Century Britain became one of the World’s First Sports Stars,” by Professor Ronald Schechter (History, College of William & Mary).
Ronald Schechter (Ph.D., Harvard, 1993) is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), translator/editor of Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing with Related Documents (Boston and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004) and co-author (with artist Liz Clarke) of Mendoza the Jew: Boxing, Manliness and Nationalism. A Graphic History (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).