The Popes Against the Jews - Hardcover

Kertzer, David I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375406239 ISBN 13: 9780375406232

Verlag: Alfred A Knopf, 2001

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Book by Kertzer David I

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Drawing on preciously hidden Vatican sources and archival materials, a provovative historical study traces the evolution of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church from the French Revolution to World War II and assesses the Church's role in promoting and deseminating a centuries-long demonization of the Jews throughout Europe that led to the Holocaust. 50,000 first printing.

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king historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican’s secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible.

Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to improve Catholic-Jewish relations, has himself called for a clear-eyed historical investigation into any possible link be-tween the Church and the Holocaust. An important sign of his commitment was the recent decision to allow the distinguished historian David I. Kertzer, a specialist in Italian history, to be one of the first scholars given access to long-sealed Vatican archives.

The result is a book filled with shocking revelations. It traces the Vatican’s role in the development of modern anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Kertzer shows why all the recent attention given to Pope Pius XII’s failure to publicly protest the slaughter of Europe’s Jews in the war mi

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• Verlag: Alfred A Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375406239
• ISBN 13: 9780375406232
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368