Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism

Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford and at Brasenose College, UK.Simon Levis Sullam is Associate Professor of Modern History at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy.

“All three volumes help move the historiography of antisemitism forward in a way that has long been needed, presenting a panorama of new and interesting perspectives about an old but still important, relevant, and hotly debated theme.” (Shulamit Volkov, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 33, 2023)“The volume is a major contribution to the field of modern Jewish history. It is remarkable for a project with such an ambitious agenda that it largely succeeds to deliver on its promises. … It should be considered as a major historiographical intervention that will hopefully become a reference point not only for historians of Jews and antisemitism but also for future research on liberalism, colonialism, minorities, genocide, and human rights.” (Ludwig Decke, Comparativ -Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 32 (6), 2022)

• ​1. Introduction: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: Towards a 21st Century History- Abigail Green and Simon Levis Sullam.- Part 1: The Limits of Liberalism.- 2. Liberalism and Antisemitism: A Reassessment from the Peripheries- Lisa M. Leff.- 3. Osman Bey’s The Conquest of the World by Jews (1873): a Liberal Antisemitism? - Simon Levis Sullam.- 4. Jews and Other Others- Ari Joskowicz.- Part 2: Living Liberalism.- 5. The Material of Race: Caribbean Jews, Clothing, and Manhood in the Age of Emancipation and Liberal Revolution- Laura Leibman.- 6. Liberalism, Antisemitism and Everyday Life in Vienna: The Tragic Case of Heinrich Jaques (1831-1894)-  Jonathan Kwan.- 7. Giving and Dying in Liberal Italy: Jewish Men and Women in Italian Culture Wars -Luisa Levi D’Ancona.- Part 3: Rethinking East-West.- 8. Unsettling the “Jewish Question” from the Margins of Europe: Spanish Liberalism and Sepharad- Michal Rose Friedman.- 9. A Model Millet? Ottoman Jewish Citizenship at the End of Empire-Julia Phillips Cohen.- 10. From East to West: America as the Liberal Melting Pot of Jewish Politics- Matt Silver.- Part 4: Liberalism, Empire, Zionism.- 11. Who Introduced Liberalism into the Damascus Affair (1840)? Center, Periphery, and Networks in the Jewish Response to the Blood Libel- Yaron Tsur.- 12. A Jewish “Liberal” in Istanbul: Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Young Turks, and the Zionist Press Network, 1908-1911- Ozan Ozavci.- 13. Jews, Imperial Liberalism, and the Predicament of “Small Nations”: Lewis B. Namier’s Gentry Nationalism- Arie M. Dubnov.- Part 5: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Liberalism.- 14. 1848 and Beyond: Jews in the National and International Politics of Secularism and Revolution- Abigail Green.- 15. “A Certain Kind of Liberalism”: Jewish Minority Rights in Eastern Europe and Beyond- James Loeffler.- 16. The Jewishness of Cold War Liberalism- Malachi Haim Hacohen. -17. Afterword