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Tracking the Jews analyses the beliefs, ideas, concepts, arguments and policies of an unprecedented conversionary initiative during the years immediately before, during and after the Holocaust.
From the rubbles of World War I to the ashes of World War II, it reconstructs previously unknown relations between a Protestant framework for global evangelisation of Jews, the network of international bodies that constituted the ecumenical movement of the early twentieth century, and the streams of thought on the Jewish question that flowed through its networking channels.
Based on more than twenty thousand pages of archival documents, it forces from the shadows the conversionary issues in which nineteen centuries of negative Church teachings on Jews were rooted, bringing to light a field of transnationally shared beliefs about the place, role and destiny of Jews in world society. It sets into sobering relief the paradoxical ways in which a broad international toleration of traditional anti-Judaism allowed, under a banner of Christian benevolence, a transnational public discourse of antisemitic ideas masked in conversionary language.
'Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the complexities of European Protestant responses to the Jewish Community'.
Victoria Barnett, Former Director of Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
'Tracking the Jews is a richly documented account of how the Holocaust forced ecumenical Protestants to rethink the boundaries of mission, the ethics of conversion, and the integrity of Jewish-Christian witness'.
Richard Harvey, All Nations Christian College, UK
'One cannot but admire the breadth and depth of the research and the vast historical sources and developments that were brought to the attention of the scholarly community. The complex and problematic attitudes Sanzenbacher has unearthed and highlighted are highly relevant to our time and we are in the author’s debt. This is a praiseworthy study and I highly recommend it.'
Yaakov Ariel, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Introduction
1 Conversion and the Jewish Problem: 1925–1932
2 In the shadows of response: 1933–1936
3 Antisemitism, refugees and war: 1937–1939
4 Voices and silences in war: 1940–1944
5 More than one guilt in the embers: 1945–1948
6 The Jews as a problem
Index