Rome, Jerusalem and the triumph of modernity : Christian Wilhelm Dohm and the regeneration of the Jews -- Orientalism and the colonial imaginary : Johann David Michaelis and the specter of racial antisemitism -- Mendelssohn's Jesus : the frustrations of Jewish resistance -- Philosophy, antisemitism and the politics of religious reform : Saul Ascher's challenge to Kant and Fichte -- Jewish baptism and the quest for world rule : perceptions of Jewish power around 1800
