The Jew as Legitimation : Jewish-Gentile Relations Beyond Antisemitism and Philosemitism

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Jew as Legitimation, Jewish-Gentile Relations Beyond Antisemitism and Philosemitism....Pages 1-15
The Maccabean Martyrs as Models in Early Christian Writings....Pages 17-32
Alterity and Self-Legitimation: The Jew as Other in Classical and Medieval Christianity....Pages 33-45
The Theological Dialectics of Christian Hebraism and Kabbalah in Early Modernity....Pages 47-62
Christian Readings of Menasseh ben Israel: Translation and Retranslation in the Early Modern World....Pages 63-81
Ideology and Social Change: Jewish Emancipation in European Revolutionary Consciousness (1780–1800)....Pages 83-101
Post-Biblical Jewish History Through Christian Eyes: Josephus and the Miracle of Jewish History in English Protestantism....Pages 103-115
Alien, Everyman, Jew: The Dialectics of Dutch “Philosemitism” on the Eve of World War II....Pages 117-134
The British Empire’s Jewish Question and the Post-Ottoman Future....Pages 135-151
The Action Portuguesia: Legitimizing National-Socialist Racial Ideology as a Dutch Sephardic Strategy for Safety, 1941–1944....Pages 153-171
Disowning Responsibility: The Stereotype of the Passive Jew as a Legitimizing Factor in Dutch Remembrance of the Shoah....Pages 173-193
A Source of Legitimacy: Evangelical Christians and Jews....Pages 195-221
Settlers in a Strange Land: Dutch, Swiss, American, and German Protestants in Nes Ammim (Israel), 1952–1964....Pages 223-240
How the Turn to the Jews After the Shoah Helped Open Catholics to Religious Pluralism....Pages 241-255
The Battle for Jewish Sympathy: The House of Orange, the Dutch Jews, and Postwar Morality....Pages 257-273
Geert Wilders and the Nationalist-Populist Turn Toward the Jews in Europe....Pages 275-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-304