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- Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names
- Introduction
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Christopher Clark The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728–1941
Christopher Clark The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728–1941
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995); pp. 340
- Chapter:
- Christopher Clark The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728–1941
- Source:
- Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 11
- Author(s):
Alan Levenson
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter highlights Christopher Clark's The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728–1941. This meticulously researched, clearly written history provides the first objective and properly contextualized account of the attempts of one fringe group to bring another fringe group into the bosom of the Church. Anyone desiring a reliable institutional history of the missionary Protestant campaign to convert Prussian Jewry will not need to look beyond this work. The author demonstrates the effect of changing imperial policies, the agenda of the Church at large, and the general economic conditions of Prussia on the fate of the mission to the Jews. Clark examines missionary schools and missionary journals and the distribution of Christian texts and reports on the conversions of nominal Christians to true believers—tales that were directed at the Jews as well as at a Germany that was becoming rapidly secular. Moreover, he subtly places the missionary movement on a continuum from antisemitism to philosemitism.
Keywords: Christopher Clark, missionary Protestant campaign, Prussian Jewry, Church, Christians, missionary movement, antisemitism, philosemitism, Prussia, missionary Protestantism
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Preface
- Polin
- Polin
- Note on Transliteration, Names, and Place-Names
- Introduction
-
Review Eśśays History, Experience, and Democracy István Bibó Revisited: The Jewish Question after 1944–Fifty Years Later* - The Realm of Shadows: Recent Writing on the Holocaust
- Polish History through the Eyes of Three Jewish Popular Historians
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- Świat pod kontrolą: Wybór materiałów z archiwum cenzury rosyjskiej w Warszawie
- Andrzej Jezierski (Ed.) Historia Polski w liczbach: Ludność, terytorium
- Rainer Erb (Ed.) Die Legende vom Ritualmord: Zur Geschichte der Blutbeschuldigung gegen Juden
- Milton Shain The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa
- Regina Renz Społeczeństwo małomiasteczkowe w województwie kieleckim 1918–1939
- Christopher Clark The Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 1728–1941
- Jacek J. Jadacki and Barbara Markiewicz (Eds.) A mądrości zło nie przemoże
- Death Books from Auschwitz: Remnants
- Norman Salsitz, as told to Richard Skolnik
- Zygmunt Bauman Modernity and the Holocaust
- Barbara and Leszek Amatys and Wieslaw Stradomski
- Nechama Tec Defiance: The Bielski Partisans
- Felicja Karay Death Comes in Yellow: Skarżysko-Kamienna Slave Labour Camp
- Tomas Venclova Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast
- Irena Kowalsk and Ida Merżan Rottenbergowie znad Buga
- Fanny Solomian Getto i gwiazdy
- Arnost Lustig Children of the Holocaust
-
Obituary Julian Stryjkowski - The Third Competition of Scholarly Works on Polish Jewish and Israeli Themes
- A Bibliography of Polish Jewish Studies 1995
- Notes on the Contributors and Translators
- Glossary
- Index
