Philosemitism, antisemitism and 'the Jews' : perspectives from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century / edited by Tony Kushner and Nadia Valman.

"In 1996 the University of Southampton formalised the creation of the Parkes Centre for the Study of the Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. It was at this point ... that ... an international conference was organised on the theme 'Tolerance and Intolerance'. This volume, based on a careful selection of the conference papers is part of that process ..."--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.

Introduction / Tony Kushner with Nadia Valman -- -- I. Theorising tolerance and intolerance -- Intolerance and tolerance: only one 'one and only' God or more / Gavin I. Langmuir -- The power of tolerance / David Theo Goldberg -- Reading intolerant texts in a tolerant society / Norman Solomon -- The limits of tolerance: nation-building and what it means for minority groups / Mark Levene -- -- II. Philosemitism, Antisemitism and Intolerance -- Jonah the Jew: The Evolution of a Biblical Character / Yvonne Sherwood -- The Jews and the Cross in the Middles Ages: towards a reappraisal / Elliott Horowitz -- Albert the Great on the Talmud and the Jews / Irven M. Resnick -- "Inward" and "Outward" Jews: Margaret Fell, circumcision and women's preaching / Claire Jowitt -- Enlightenment and Exclusion: Judaism and Toleration in Spinoza, Locke and Bayle / Adam Sutcliffe -- The limits of toleration in Enlightenment Germany: Lessing, Goethe and the Jews / Ritchie Robertson -- The Slave, the Noble and the Jews: Reflections on Section 7 of Nietzche's On the Genealogy of Morals / David Seymour -- Antisemtism in Canada: the legal dimension in context / Thomas S. Kuttner -- Offending the memory? The Holocaust and pressure group politics / Tony Kushner