Table of Contents

Introduction - interdiciplinary approaches to James Parkes, Sian Jones, Tony Kushner and Sarah Pearce. Christian-Jewish relations: James Parkes - a centenary lecture, Nicholas de Lange; attitudes of contempt - Christain anti-Judaism and the Bible, Sarah Pearce; silence or speaking out, Elisabeth Maxwell; the silent retreat of the fathers - episodes in the process of re-appraisal of Jewish history and culture in 18th-century England, Paolo Bernardini. Jewishness and the construction of "racial" and national identities: Shakespeare and the Jews, James Shapiro; radical identities? - native Americans, Jews and the English Commonwealth, Claire Jowitt; in England's green and pleasant land - James Parkes and Jerusalem, Tony Kushner. Jews and antisemitism: Parkes, prejudice and the Middle Ages, Colin Richmond; reporting antisemitism - the "Jewish Chronicle", 1879-1979, David Cesarani; the necessity of antisemitism, Frederic Raphael; afterword - liberalism and toleration, Raymond Plant.