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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction. What Are Jews For? History and the Purpose Question
Covenant, Chosenness and Divine Purpose: The Biblical Prooftexts
Jewish Purpose in History: An Outline
1. Religion, Sovereignty, Messianism: Jews and Political Purpose
Special and Subordinate: Jewish Significance in the Early Islamic and Medieval Christian Worlds
Protestant Identity and Hebraic Political Theology
Two Jewish Messiahs: Sabbatai Zevi and Baruch Spinoza
2. Reason, Toleration, Emancipation: Jews and Philosophical Purpose
Judaism versus Reason: Pierre Bayle and Voltaire
Toleration and Cosmopolitanism: Lessing, Mendelssohn and the Jew as Enlightenment Ideal
Regeneration and Emancipation: Jewish Transformation as Enlightenment Fulfilment
3. Teachers and Traders: Jews and Social Purpose
From the Spirit of Judaism to the Mission of Israel: Jews as Universal Teachers
The Virtues of Hebraism
The Jewish Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
4. Light unto the Nations: Jews and National Purpose
Jewish Purpose and the Emergence of the Zionist Idea
Messianism, Normalization and the Contest of Zionisms
Nationhood and Jewish Exemplarity
5. Normalization and Its Discontents: Jews and Cultural Purpose
Integration and Jewish Purpose in Britain and America
Cultural Distinctiveness and Cultural Critique in Austria and Germany
The Holocaust and the Lessons of Jewish Suffering
Jews, the Left and the Politics of Hope
Conclusion. So What Are Jews For? Jews and Contemporary Purpose
Jewish Purpose in Theory and Practice
Zionism, Antisemitism and the Contemporary Politics of Jewish Purpose
Notes
Index
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