Abstract
Christian opposition to missions to the Jews long predates the rise of the interfaith movement. This article focuses on two groups of nineteenth-century Christian opponents of missions to the Jews: those who objected because they opposed missionary activities of every sort, and those who objected to missions aimed specifically at Jews but who supported other missionary endeavors. Also discussed are hitherto-unsuspected links between Jewish and Christian anti-missionary activists, links which at least in some cases seem to have rested on a basis of social intimacy. Finally, the broader implications of this data for understanding Jewish-Christian relations in the United States are explored-both in their formative period and later as well.