The Jew as Legitimation: Jewish-Gentile Relations Beyond 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