The Jew as Legitimation , Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Jewish-Gentile Relations Beyond Antisemitism and Philosemitism
Langue : Anglais
Coordonnateur : Wertheim David J.
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.
1. Introduction; David Wertheim
2. The Maccabean Martyrs as Models in Early Christian Writings; Jan Willem van Henten
3. Alterity and Self-Legitimation: The Jew as Other in Classical and Medieval Christianity; Jeremy Cohen
4. The Theological Dialectics of Christian Hebraism and Kabbalah in Early Modernity; Andreas B. Kilcher
5. Christian Readings of Menasseh ben Israel. Translation and Retranslation in the Early Modern World; Sina Rauschenbach
6. Ideology and Social Change. Jewish Emancipation in European Revolutionary Consciousness (1780–1800); Jonathan Israel
7. Post-Biblical Jewish History through Christian Eyes. Josephus and the Miracle of Jewish History in English Protestantism; Jonathan Elukin
8. Alien, Everyman, Jew. The dialectics of Dutch “Philosemitism” on the Eve of World War II; Irene Zwiep
9. The British Empire’s Jewish Question and the Post-Ottoman Future; James Renton
10. The Action Portuguesia. Legitimizing National Socialist Racial Ideology as a Dutch Sephardic Strategy for Safety, 1941-1944; Jaap Cohen
11. Disowning Responsibility. The Stereotype of the Passive Jew as a Legitimizing Factor in Dutch Remembrance of the Shoah; Evelien Gans
12. Source of Legitimacy. Evangelical Christians and Jews; Yaakov Ariel
13. Settlers in a Strange Land. Dutch, Swiss, American, and German Protestants in Nes Ammim (Israel), 1952-1964; Gert van Klinken
14. How the Turn to the Jews after the Shoah Helped Open Catholics to Religious Pluralism; John Connelly
15. The Battle for Jewish Sympathy. The House of Orange, the Dutch Jews, and Postwar Morality; Bart Wallet
16. Geert Wilders and the Nationalist Populist Turn toward the Jews in Europe; David Wertheim
David J. Wertheim is Director of the Menasseh ben Israel Institute for Jewish Cultural and Social studies in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is an academic partnership between the University of Amsterdam and the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam. He is the author of Salvation through Spinoza, a Study of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany.
Provides in-depth discussions of a number of historical cases in which Jews serve as the legitimization of non-Jewish ideas, values, decisions, and exploits
Shows the complexity of inter-ethnic and religious relationships by emphasizing the legitimizing value of the (Jewish) minority for the (non-Jewish) majority
Takes understanding of inter-ethnic and religious relationships beyond the polarities of oppressors and oppressed, dominating and dominated, and colonizing and colonized
Date de parution : 02-2017
Ouvrage de 304 p.
14.8x21 cm
Date de parution : 07-2018
Ouvrage de 304 p.
14.8x21 cm
Thèmes de The Jew as Legitimation :
Mots-clés :
interreligious studies; christian hebraism; philosemitism; anti-semitism; gentile
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