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... of the worldwide Jewish Diaspora. Members of these communities may number in the hundreds of thousands and have been striving for Jewish recognition. These developments comprise one facet of the burgeoning phenomenon of African philo-Semitism. This essay, which is in equal measure chronological and thematic, seeks...

...Paul Fenton Five illustrations of exceptional instances of Muslim philo-Semitism are presented in this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia. The first appears in a responsum of the fourteenth-century Spanish rabbi Isaac Ben Sheshet dealing with the Muslim admission of Jewish...

... is paid to the Anagogical Window of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and to the Ecclesia, Synagoga, and King Solomon statues on the south facade of Strasbourg Cathedral, in both of which is found previously overlooked evidence of philo-Semitic, rather than anti-Semitic, thinking on the part of the designers...

... and regress from mutual understanding of Jewish and Muslim undergraduates in a course on Christianity that he teaches at an Israeli university. He offers, in addition, documentary, anecdotal, and personal evidence of Jewish and Christian Islamophilia, Muslim and Christian philo-Semitism, and Jewish and Muslim...

...- ish atheists strive. Dostoevsky’s young friend, the philosopher Vladimir Soloviev, a rare Slavo- phile philo-Semite and student of the Talmud, rebuked and pitied the novelist for his prejudices. Soloviev too saw Judaism as a materialist idea, except...

... and Muslims? Some insight comes from the history and study of philo- Semitism. Robert Chazan, for instance, has shown how positive and negative images of Jews were often juxtaposed, which is not surprising, considering that there was no cohesive ideology of philosemitism. 23 Thus Pope Alexander II (d. 1073...

... for the study of rabbinic literature. Though a missionary intent upon the conversion of Jews, he was also quite the philo- Semite.39 He strongly defended the Jews in the 1840 Damascus Blood Libel, for example, by circulating a document among Jewish converts to Christianity, certifying that Jews never make...

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.... As Boyarin points out, the two are closely paired, anti- Semitism so often accompa- nying philo- Semitism (Boyarin, personal communication, September 2017). Observing a parallel in American cul- ture, Honig argues that xenophobia accompanies xeno- philia and that xenophilia gives rise to xenophobia (Honig...

... the treatment of his own students? Were university officials so anti-Semitic that they would have shrugged it off? More important: why, ten years before the Anschluss, did the university students themselves, many of them socialists, accept the status quo? Furthermore: why did...

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..., Kolozsvár; in Romanian, Cluj ).25 The process of crossing cultures was, however, uneven. It was hampered by monological and chauvinistic trends in Hungary (where there was a strong populist, anti-Romanian, anti-Slovak, and anti-Semitic current), as well as in Poland under the Pil´sudski regime...