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James
William Parkes (22
December 1896 – 10 August 1981) was an Anglican clergyman, historian, and social activist.
With the publication of The Jew and His Neighbour in 1929, he
created the foundations of a Christian re-evaluation of Judaism. Parkes was born in Guernsey on
the Channel Islands at
the end of the nineteenth century and educated at Elizabeth College.
While at school, he won an Open Scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford,
and then enlisted to fight in the First World War. After returning from the war, he went back to
Oxford to complete his degree, and did so, despite catching measles in the
middle of his final exams. He then went on to study for ordination. Parkes was
drawn to his study of Jewish–Christian relations by first-hand exposure to the
brutality of antisemitism on the
continent, Parkes traced its animus to the obdurate hard-heartedness and
wrongheadedness of Christianity vis-à-vis the Jewish people and their faith. He
discovered that the principles and practice of historic Christianity was
responsible for the sins and excesses that culminated in the Holocaust. His life's work amounted not only to hundreds of
articles and twenty-three books, among them The Conflict of the Church
and the Synagogue (1934), his magnum opus, but also to social
activism. According to one historian, Parkes "devoted his whole life to
fighting anti-Judaism and promoting tolerance of Jews". In that
endeavor, for twenty years his was a lone clerical voice against the
missionizing of Jews, and he would be the driving force in the founding of
the Council of Christians and
Jews. Following three years of active duty as an infantryman
during World War I, he took a
degree at Oxford, orders in
the Anglican Church, and spent
the next 12 years on the continent as an activist in organizations that
promoted international cooperation. It was there that he grew aware of the
brutality of antisemitism and very early on spoke out about Nazism, surviving
an assassination attempt in 1935. Upon his return to England, he carved out a
career as an independent scholar. Parkes contributed to several British
publications, including The Observer, The Jewish Chronicle, Punch and Peace News. He bequeathed his Judaica collection to the University of Southampton where
it became the cornerstone of the Parkes Jewish Library and the Parkes Institute
for the Study of Jewish/Christian Relations. He also wrote Common sense
about religion, as part of the Common Sense series.
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