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James Parkes: A Final Reckoning

by Haim Chertok

Abstract: James Parkes, an Anglican priest, a groundbreaking historian and radical theologian, was arguably the best friend of the Jewish people ever to arise from the innermost recesses of Christianity. Born on the Island of Guernsey in 1896, he devoted his life to loving and saving Jews: from the designs of missionaries, from antisemitism in all its guises, from the clutches of Nazi predators, and from all who would deny the Jewish people a national life in their own homeland. After recounting highlights of a life well spent, “A Final Reckoning” ruminates upon Parkes’ character, pecularities, and discontents in the final days of his life. (more…)

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