Bishop Isaac Hellmuth is the undisputed father of The University of Western Ontario, and his devotion to Christianity is celebrated as part of its rich history. Hellmuth, however, was born a Jew. Both Anglican and evangelical sources have treated his Judaism and his 1841 conversion to Christianity in a variety of ways, but they are limited. This paper will revisit Hellmuth’s conversion and career through a Jewish lens, profiling a Christian missionary movement in which Hellmuth was active as both a prospective apostate and long-time emissary. Hellmuth’s conversion has been described as an exclusively religious experience, but amidst European anti-Semitism, it might have been partly motivated by a desire for position and wealth. Certainly, H...
Jean de Menasce, né en 1902 dans l’aristocratie juive d’Alexandrie et impliqué dans le mouvement sio...
The Jew of every age has anxiously awaited the coming of his promised Messiah. The Jews just previou...
We study the role of economic incentives in shaping the co-existence of Jews, Catholics and Protesta...
Bishop Isaac Hellmuth is the undisputed father of The University of Western Ontario, and his devotio...
In the interwar period, the Polish Catholic Church revisited the Jewish question and attempted to re...
This paper explores how sermons contributed to Jewish-Christian relations in Victorian England. I be...
Donato Manduzio was a Southern Italian peasant who only learned how to read and write in his early t...
This article endeavours to reconstruct the biography of a Karaim from Galicia called Andrzej (Zachar...
The name of Bernhard Blumenkranz is well known to all those who study the history of European Jews i...
Defence date: 24 April 2015Examining Board: Emeritus Professor Anthony Molho, European University I...
An article about the life and literary output of the neophyte Antoni Opolski. By contrast to other E...
The dissertation/book manuscript is an Isaac-centric prehistory of the fourth paragraph of Nostra ae...
This study explores the attractions that make for a successful ministry among Jews, and the hindranc...
In 1748/49, Isaac Wetzlar of Celle in Northern Germany completed Libes Briv (Love Letter), a Yiddish...
I have always been baffled by the number of atrocities carried out against the Jews in the name of t...
Jean de Menasce, né en 1902 dans l’aristocratie juive d’Alexandrie et impliqué dans le mouvement sio...
The Jew of every age has anxiously awaited the coming of his promised Messiah. The Jews just previou...
We study the role of economic incentives in shaping the co-existence of Jews, Catholics and Protesta...
Bishop Isaac Hellmuth is the undisputed father of The University of Western Ontario, and his devotio...
In the interwar period, the Polish Catholic Church revisited the Jewish question and attempted to re...
This paper explores how sermons contributed to Jewish-Christian relations in Victorian England. I be...
Donato Manduzio was a Southern Italian peasant who only learned how to read and write in his early t...
This article endeavours to reconstruct the biography of a Karaim from Galicia called Andrzej (Zachar...
The name of Bernhard Blumenkranz is well known to all those who study the history of European Jews i...
Defence date: 24 April 2015Examining Board: Emeritus Professor Anthony Molho, European University I...
An article about the life and literary output of the neophyte Antoni Opolski. By contrast to other E...
The dissertation/book manuscript is an Isaac-centric prehistory of the fourth paragraph of Nostra ae...
This study explores the attractions that make for a successful ministry among Jews, and the hindranc...
In 1748/49, Isaac Wetzlar of Celle in Northern Germany completed Libes Briv (Love Letter), a Yiddish...
I have always been baffled by the number of atrocities carried out against the Jews in the name of t...
Jean de Menasce, né en 1902 dans l’aristocratie juive d’Alexandrie et impliqué dans le mouvement sio...
The Jew of every age has anxiously awaited the coming of his promised Messiah. The Jews just previou...
We study the role of economic incentives in shaping the co-existence of Jews, Catholics and Protesta...