ABSTRACT
The introduction contextualizes the book’s themes on several levels. In the first, it introduces the chronological and thematic context of the book. It explains why, in the first half of the nineteenth century, the discussion about the nationalization of the Jews by Awakened Christians became so palpable. At the second level, it presents the theoretical synthesis of the argument through definitions of the main concepts of the book, namely Pietism (early and new), conservatism, and the national-religious amalgamation. The third level situates the book’s argumentation within the historiographical context of the triangular intersection: Christian-conservatism, Jews, and nationalism. In the last part of the introduction, the methodology applied, the structure of the book, and a concise description of the argumentation of each chapter are presented.
