Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews': Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Studies in European Cultural Transition)

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. From antiquity to today, Jews have often been defined as 'aliens'; these essays consider the effects of such legislative and socio-cultural exclusion on the self-definition of the dominant society. Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' employs an interdisciplinary framework, bringing together the work of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic and Israel, who work in history, theology, political philosophy, legal theory and literary studies. Eminent historians and theorists of tolerance and intolerance, including Gavin Langmuir, David Theo Goldberg, Norman Solomon and Tony Kushner, are joined by younger scholars researching new developments in the field. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors General Editors’ Preface Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: The Wide Field of Relations? Part I Theorising Tolerance and Intolerance 2 Intolerance and Tolerance: Only One ‘One and Only’ God or More 3 The Power of Tolerance 4 Reading Intolerant Texts in a Tolerant Society 5 The Limits of Tolerance: Nation-State Building and What it Means for Minority Groups Part II Philosemitism, Antisemitism and Intolerance 6 Jonah the Jew: The Evolution of a Biblical Character 7 The Jews and the Cross in the Middle Ages: Towards a Reappraisal 8 Albert the Great on the Talmud and the Jews 9 ‘Inward’ and ‘Outward’ Jews: Margaret Fell, Circumcision and Women’s Preaching 10 Enlightenment and Exclusion: Judaism and Toleration in Spinoza, Locke and Bayle 11 The Limits of Toleration in Enlightenment Germany: Lessing, Goethe and the Jews 12 The Slave, the Noble and the Jews: Reflections on Section 7 of Nietzche’s On the Genealogy of Morals 13 Antisemitism in Canada: The Legal Dimension in Context 14 Offending the Memory? The Holocaust and Pressure Group Politics Bibliography Index

Scholars with the Parkes Institute at Southampton University, UK, introduce this collection of 14 essays from a campus conference that paid tribute to work of the late Rev. Dr. James Parkes, a pioneer in studying and advocating for normalcy in Jewish/non- Jewish relations. Kushner and Valman overview his writings from the 1920s to 1970s, which stressed the central role of the Christian church in fomenting the unique evil of antisemitism. Contributors follow his lead in deconstructing discourse on the Jew in relation to Biblical theology, Enlightenment philosophy, discrimination against minorities in modern nations, and the politics of Holocaust remembrance. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

In August 1956 the 'Parkes Library Limited: A Centre for the Study of Relations between the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds' was formally incorporated.