The Jewish strong man: Daniel Mendoza and the assault on stereotype in late Georgian England
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The focus of this study is Daniel Mendoza (1764-1836), an exceptional boxer and a controversial figure of Georgian Anglo-Jewish society. It will chart his meteoric rise from greengrocer's apprentice to champion boxer, and his sudden decline. The thesis aims to put Mendoza in his proper historical context, focussing on the dominant issues for the Jewish community at the time. To do this, there will be a review of the major works of Jewish and English history from the period. It also attempts to bring Mendoza, previously overlooked by Anglo-Jewish historians, to the forefront of any debate about the position of Anglo-Jewry at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The study will examine, in particular, the effect of Mendoza on the stereotyping of Jews in late eighteenth century England, and how he presents himself, through his writings and manipulation of the press, as the antithesis of the traditional Jewish stereotype. To show this, the thesis draws on many primary sources, predominantly newspapers and boxing reports from England, as well as Mendoza's own memoirs, and Old Bailey proceedings.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".