Jews, Catholics, and the burden of history / edited by Eli Lederhendler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lederhendler, Eli.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 21.

Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church.

Judaism.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Christianity and antisemitism.

Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism.

Catholic Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Published for the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry by Oxford University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden ofHistory offers a collection of new scholarship on the nature of the Jewish-Catholic encounter between 1945 and 2005, with an emphasis on how this relationship has emerged from the shadow of the Holocaust.

Contents:

Contents; Symposium: Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History; A Plea Unanswered: Jacques Maritain, Pope Pius XII, and the Holocaust; Jules Isaac and His Role in Jewish-Christian Relations; The Church and the Memory of the Shoah: The Catholic Press in Italy, 1945-1947; Catholicism and the Jews in Post-Communist Poland; ""Poles-Catholics" and "Symbolic Jews": Jewishness as Social Closure in Poland; Communist! Fascist! New York Jews and Catholics Fight the Cold War; Toward a Structural Explanation of Jewish-Catholic Political Differences in the United States

Catholic (and Protestant) Israel: The Permutations of Denominational Differences and Identities in Mixed FamiliesMini-symposium: Holocaust Memory and Judgment; What is Holocaust Literature?; Moshe Sharett and the German Reparations Agreement, 1949-1952; The Clandestine Zionist Press in the Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp: Selected Documents from Nizoz, 1944-1945; Essays; Zola's Novel of the Dreyfus Affair: Between Mystique and Politique; Franz Boas' Linguistic Paradigm and the Paradox of Jewish Group Existence

Innovating the Past: The Emerging Sphere of the "Torah-true Historian" in AmericaBook Reviews (arranged by subject); Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide; Biography, History, and the Social Sciences; Cultural Studies; Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East; Contents for Volume XXII; Note on Editorial Policy

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-19-029399-3

1-280-84643-7

0-19-534571-1

1-4294-0302-0

OCLC:

252674802