Jews and Christians in Denmark: From the Middle Ages to Recent Times, Ca. 1100-1948 (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 48)

Contents
Preface
Note about This Volume
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Jews in Literature and Art of the Church: The Catholic Middle Ages
	Writings on the Life of Personal Piety
	The Crusades
	Jews in the Hexameron (ca. 1220)
	The First Danish Anti-Jewish Publication (1516)
	Judaism and Jews in the Art of the Church
Chapter 2 Martin Luther’s Antipathy toward Jewsand the Attitudes of Danish Reformers: The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
	Martin Luther and the Jews
	This Evil People—Hans Tausen and Peder Palladius
	Jews in Church Prayers and Edifying Writings
	God’s Own Language—The Study of Hebrew
Chapter 3 Jewish Immigrants, Freedomof Religion, and the Anger of the Bishops: The Orthodoxy of the Seventeenth Century
	Orthodoxy and Absolute Monarchy
	Judaism and Jews in Academic and Popular Literature
	Government Policies on Jews and the Reaction of the Bishops
	Baptism of Jews
	The Chief of Police’s Proposal for a Jewish Ghetto (1692)
Chapter 4 Convert or be Lost! Controversy and Missionin the Age of Pietism (1700–1760)
	The Jewish Community
	Views of Christian Theologians on Judaism and Jews
	Problems of Integration
	Mission to the Jews
	Conversion of Jews to Christianity
Chapter 5 Ordinary Danish Citizens, but with Another Religion: The ‘Christian’ and Jewish Enlightenment (1760–1814)
	The Jewish Community
	Enlightenment Movements
	Conflicts about Jewish Reforms
	Judaism and Jews in the Writings of Christian Theologians
	The Conversion of Jews to Christianity
	The Views of Christian Theologians on the Anti-JewishLiterary Feud
	‘The Letter of Freedom’: The Royal Decree of March 29, 1814
Chapter 6 Avowals of Converted Jews
Chapter 7 Freedom for Jews? (1814–1849) The Integration of Jews into Society
	A Letter of Freedom?
	Literary Feuds and Street Fights
	Jews in the Writings of Christian Theologians
	Conditions within the Jewish Congregation
	Debate on the Adaptation of Jews to Social and Political Conditions
	Missionary Work and the Conversion of Jews to Christianity
Chapter 8 The Danish People’s Church and the Jews(1849–ca. 1900)
	The Independent Jewish Community of Faith
	Confrontation between Chief Rabbi Abraham Wolffand the ‘Enemies of the Talmud’
	Attitudes toward Jews of Different Movements within the Danish People’s Church
	Religious and Social Problems in the Jewish Community
	The Danish Mission to the Jews
	Admittance into the Danish Church and into the Jewish Congregation
Chapter 9 Sympathy for Jews and Hatred of Jewsin the Danish People’s Church (ca. 1900–1948)
	The State of Affairs within the Jewish Community
	Christian Theologians and Zionism
	Groupings within the Danish People’s Church and Anti-Semitism (before 1940)
	Jews and Christians during and after the German Occupation
	Renewed Missionary Efforts among the Jews
	Reaction in the People’s Church on Zionism and the Creation of the State of Israel
Chapter 10 Epilogue
Literature and Sources
Index of Persons and Places