Tracking the Jews : Ecumenical Protestants, Conversion, and the Holocaust / Carolyn Sanzenbacher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanzenbacher, Carolyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Christian converts from Judaism.

Ecumenical movement--History.

Ecumenical movement.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Conversion to Christianity.

Jews.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Jews--Identity.

Judaism--Relations--Protestant churches.

Judaism.

Protestant churches--Relations--Judaism.

Protestant churches.

International Missionary Council. Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews.

International Missionary Council.

World Council of Churches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 3 black & white illustrations, 7 maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tracking the Jews analyses the beliefs, ideas, concepts, arguments and policies of an unprecedented conversionary initiative during the years immediately before, during and after the Holocaust.From the rubbles of World War I to the ashes of World War II, it reconstructs previously unknown relations between a Protestant framework for global evangelisation of Jews, the network of international bodies that constituted the ecumenical movement of the early twentieth century, and the streams of thought on the Jewish question that flowed through its networking channels.Based on more than twenty thousand pages of archival documents, it forces from the shadows the conversionary issues in which nineteen centuries of negative Church teachings on Jews were rooted, bringing to light a field of transnationally shared beliefs about the place, role and destiny of Jews in world society. It sets into sobering relief the paradoxical ways in which a broad international toleration of traditional anti-Judaism allowed, under a banner of Christian benevolence, a transnational public discourse of antisemitic ideas masked in conversionary language.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

About the cover

Introduction

1 Conversion and the Jewish problem

2 In the shadows of response

3 Antisemitism, refugees and war

4 Voices and silences in war

5 More than one guilt in the embers

6 The Jews as a problem

Select bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526161307

OCLC:

1453645470