The Jew as Legitimation

<div>1. Introduction; David Wertheim.-&nbsp;2. The Maccabean Martyrs as Models in Early Christian Writings; Jan Willem van Henten.-&nbsp;3. Alterity and Self-Legitimation: The Jew as Other in Classical and Medieval Christianity; Jeremy Cohen.-&nbsp;4. The Theological Dialectics of Christian Hebraism and Kabbalah in Early Modernity; Andreas B. Kilcher.-&nbsp;5. Christian Readings of Menasseh ben Israel. Translation and Retranslation in the Early Modern World; Sina Rauschenbach.-&nbsp;6. Ideology and Social Change. Jewish Emancipation in European Revolutionary Consciousness (1780–1800); Jonathan Israel.-&nbsp;7. Post-Biblical Jewish History through Christian Eyes. Josephus and the Miracle of Jewish History in English Protestantism; Jonathan Elukin.-&nbsp;8. Alien, Everyman, Jew. The dialectics of Dutch “Philosemitism” on the Eve of World War II; Irene Zwiep.-&nbsp;9. The British Empire’s Jewish Question and the Post-Ottoman Future; James Renton.-&nbsp;10. The Action Portuguesia. Legitimizing National Socialist Racial Ideology as a Dutch Sephardic Strategy for Safety, 1941-1944; Jaap Cohen.-&nbsp;11. Disowning Responsibility. The Stereotype of the Passive Jew as a Legitimizing Factor in Dutch Remembrance of the Shoah; Evelien Gans.-&nbsp;12. Source of Legitimacy. Evangelical Christians and Jews; Yaakov Ariel.-&nbsp;13. Settlers in a Strange Land. Dutch, Swiss, American, and German Protestants in Nes Ammim (Israel), 1952-1964; Gert van Klinken.-&nbsp;14. How the Turn to the Jews after the Shoah Helped Open Catholics to Religious Pluralism; John Connelly.-&nbsp;15. The Battle for Jewish Sympathy. The House of Orange, the Dutch Jews, and Postwar Morality; Bart Wallet.-&nbsp;16. Geert Wilders and the Nationalist Populist Turn toward the Jews in Europe; David Wertheim.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>