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