This collection of essays focuses on the concepts of tolerance and intolerance as it commemorates the life of James Parkes - the man who pioneered the study of antisemitism and Jewish-non-Jewish relations. The essays analyse many different examples of antisemitism, ambivalence and philosemitism.
Preface ix(2) Notes on Contributors xi
1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to James Parkes 1(30) Sian Jones Tony Kushner Sarah Pearce CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS 31(98)
2. James Parkes: A Centenary Lecture 31(19) Nicholas de Lange
3. Attitudes of Contempt: Christian Anti-Judaism and the Bible 50(22) Sarah Pearce
4. Silence or Speaking Out 72(28) Elisabeth Maxwell
5. The Silent Retreat of the Fathers: Episodes in the Process of Re-appraisal of Jewish History and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England 100(29) Paolo Bernardini JEWISHNESS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF RACIAL AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES 129(76)
6. Shakespeare and the Jews 129(24) James Shapiro
7. Radical Identities? Native Americans, Jews and the English Commonwealth 153(28) Claire Jowitt
8. In Englands Green and Pleasant Land: James Parkes and Jerusalem 181(24) Tony Kushner JEWS AND ANTISEMITISM 205(108)
9. Parkes, Prejudice and the Middle Ages 205(42) Colin Richmond
10. Reporting Antisemitism: The Jewish Chronicle, 1879-1979 247(36) David Cesarani
11. The Necessity of Antisemitism 283(24) Frederic Raphael
12. Afterword: Liberalism and Toleration 307(6) Raymond Plant Select Bibliography of Major Works Referred to in this Volume 313(2) Select Bibliography of James Parkes 315(2) Index 317
