How did Jews in Pre-Civil War America and Great Britain feel about the philosemitism of their Christian counterparts?

by 19scohen

For personal background, I am not a historian, just a Jewish person with an obsessive interest in Jewish history, and one of the topics I’ve fixated on for years is figuring out the roots of modern Protestant Christianity’s specific philosemitic fixation (especially Evangelical Christianity) on Jewish people and Zionism. I already have a lot of this figured out through looking at things that were said by Cotton Mather in Colonial America, the British Israelites, the London Jews Society (which then had a branch in the U.S.) and so on.

But I want to have more of a discussion about this, especially because Jewish reactions to this were... relatively unrecorded, except in newspapers by the London Jews Society and their American branch. Does anyone know if there are any recorded earlier reactions from Jewish people about this philosemitism?

EDIT: Just want to make this clear, the London Jews Society did have an American branch. They were called the American Baptist Society for Evangelizing the Jews but were very small and unsuccessful. I think we already have some recorded reactions to Christian philosemitism in the anglosphere, such as the Jewish reactions to how Judah Monis was treated, and RELATIVELY assimilated (or wanted to assimilate into white Christian hegemony) Jews like Mordecai Manuel Noah. I just want to know if there's any direct responses to the specific Christian philosemitism (as a type of antisemitism to be very clear) that was emerging, such as by someone like Asher Levy or any similar figures in the pre-civil war US or UK.

hannahstohelit

This is one of those weird cases where I'm not sure what to answer (or even if I have an answer), not because you're being vague, but because you're being specific and so clearly want something very specific, but I can't quite figure it out based on what you're counting out.

My instinct here would probably be to first link my April Fools thread about Rebecca Gratz, where "Rebecca" discussed her relationships with the Christians in her life and the tensions there, and then potentially to discuss the links between philosemitism and the very prominent proselytization culture among Christians in this time (though not sure if I'd have time before the weekend). Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?