Introduction : The politics of religion / Sheila A. Spector -- Mr. Punch at the Great Exhibition : stereotypes of Yankee and Hebrew in 1851 / Frank Felsenstein -- Passing for a Jew, on stage and off : stage Jews and cross-dressing Gentiles in Georgian England / Michael Ragussis -- William Blake and the Jewish Swedenborgians / Marsha Keith Schuchard -- Blake and the Book of Numbers : Joshua the giant killer and the tears of Balaam / R. Paul Yoder -- Following the muse : inspiration, prophecy, and deference in the poetry of Emma Lyon (1788-1870), Anglo-Jewish poet / Michael Scrivener -- Identity, diaspora, and the secular voice in the works of Isaac D'Israeli / Stuart Peterfreund -- Anglo-Jewish identity and the politics of cultivation in Hazlitt, Aguilar, and Disraeli / Judith W. Page -- Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya : the Gothic demonization of the Jew / Diane Long Hoeveler -- Commerce, concern, and Christianity : Britain and Middle-Eastern jewry in the mid-nineteenth century / Reeva Spector Simon -- Jewish translations of British romantic literature (1753-1858) : a preliminary bibliography / Sheila A. Spector -- The reader as witness :