The Jew as Legitimation

1. Introduction; David Wertheim2. The Maccabean Martyrs as Models in Early Christian Writings; Jan Willem van Henten3. Alterity and Self-Legitimation: The Jew as Other in Classical and Medieval Christianity; Jeremy Cohen4. The Theological Dialectics of Christian Hebraism and Kabbalah in Early Modernity; Andreas B. Kilcher5. Christian Readings of Menasseh ben Israel. Translation and Retranslation in the Early Modern World; Sina Rauschenbach6. Ideology and Social Change. Jewish Emancipation in European Revolutionary Consciousness (1780-1800); Jonathan Israel7. Post-Biblical Jewish History through Christian Eyes. Josephus and the Miracle of Jewish History in English Protestantism; Jonathan Elukin8. Alien, Everyman, Jew. The dialectics of Dutch "Philosemitism" on the Eve of World War II; Irene Zwiep9. The British Empire's Jewish Question and the Post-Ottoman Future; James Renton10. The Action Portuguesia. Legitimizing National Socialist Racial Ideology as a Dutch Sephardic Strategy for Safety, 1941-1944; Jaap Cohen11. Disowning Responsibility. The Stereotype of the Passive Jew as a Legitimizing Factor in Dutch Remembrance of the Shoah; Evelien Gans12. Source of Legitimacy. Evangelical Christians and Jews; Yaakov Ariel13. Settlers in a Strange Land. Dutch, Swiss, American, and German Protestants in Nes Ammim (Israel), 1952-1964; Gert van Klinken14. How the Turn to the Jews after the Shoah Helped Open Catholics to Religious Pluralism; John Connelly15. The Battle for Jewish Sympathy. The House of Orange, the Dutch Jews, and Postwar Morality; Bart Wallet16. 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.