The Jew as Legitimation
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The Jew as Legitimation

Jewish-Gentile Relations Beyond Antisemitism and Philosemitism

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The Jew as Legitimation

Jewish-Gentile Relations Beyond Antisemitism and Philosemitism

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This book traces the historical phenomenon of "the Jew as Legitimation." Contributors discuss how Jews have been used, through time, to validate non-Jewish beliefs. The volume dissects the dilemmas and challenges this pattern has presented to Jews.
Throughout history, Jews and Judaism have served to legitimize the beliefs of Gentiles. Jews functioned as Augustine's witnesses to the truth of Christianity, as Christian Kabbalist's source for Protestant truths, as an argument for the enlightened claim for tolerance, as the focus of modern Christian Zionist reverence, and as a weapon of contemporary right wing populism against fears of Islamization.
This volume challenges understandings of Jewish-Gentile relations, offering a counter-perspective to discourses of antisemitism and philosemitism.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319426013
Topic
Teologia e religione
Subtopic
Teologia ebraica

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. Notes on Contributors
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction: The Jew as Legitimation, Jewish-Gentile Relations Beyond Antisemitism and Philosemitism
  5. Chapter 2: The Maccabean Martyrs as Models in Early Christian Writings
  6. Chapter 3: Alterity and Self-Legitimation: The Jew as Other in Classical and Medieval Christianity
  7. Chapter 4: The Theological Dialectics of Christian Hebraism and Kabbalah in Early Modernity
  8. Chapter 5: Christian Readings of Menasseh ben Israel: Translation and Retranslation in the Early Modern World
  9. Chapter 6: Ideology and Social Change: Jewish Emancipation in European Revolutionary Consciousness (1780–1800)
  10. Chapter 7: Post-Biblical Jewish History Through Christian Eyes: Josephus and the Miracle of Jewish History in English Protesta tism
  11. Chapter 8: Alien, Everyman, Jew: The Dialectics of Dutch “Philosemitism” on the Eve of World War II
  12. Chapter 9: The British Empire’s Jewish Question and the Post-Ottoman Future
  13. Chapter 10: The Action Portuguesia: Legitimizing National-Socialist Racial Ideology as a Dutch Sephardic Strategy for Safety, 941–1944
  14. Chapter 11: Disowning Responsibility: The Stereotype of the Passive Jew as a Legitimizing Factor in Dutch Remembrance of the Shoah
  15. Chapter 12: A Source of Legitimacy: Evangelical Christians and Jews
  16. Chapter 13: Settlers in a Strange Land: Dutch, Swiss, American, and German Protestants in Nes Ammim (Israel), 1952–1964
  17. Chapter 14: How the Turn to the Jews After the Shoah Helped Open Catholics to Religious Pluralism
  18. Chapter 15: The Battle for Jewish Sympathy: The House of Orange, the Dutch Jews, and Postwar Morality
  19. Chapter 16: Geert Wilders and the Nationalist-Populist Turn Toward the Jews in Europe
  20. Index