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Robin Judd

Robin Judd is an associate professor at The Ohio State University and the author of Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933 (Cornell University Press).

The Child Was Circumcised

The Child Was Circumcised

Robin Judd

The circumcision controversy in Germany has been heating up, but it's not the first time. The discussion has been going for centuries and has involved differing levels of overt anti-Semitism.