Antisemitism, Christian ambivalence, and the Holocaust / edited by Kevin P. Spicer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spicer, Kevin P., 1965-

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Europe--History--Congresses.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitism--Germany--History--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Congresses.

Christianity and antisemitism.

National socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Washington, D.C. : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book, thirteen scholars of European history, Jewish studies, and Christian theology examine antisemitism's insidious role in Europe's intellectual and political life. The essays reveal that annihilative antisemitic thought was not limited to Germany, but could be fo

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; I. THEOLOGICAL ANTISEMITISM; 1. BELATED HEROISM: THE DANISH LUTHERAN CHURCH AND THE JEWS, 1918-1945; 2. RABBINIC JUDAISM IN THE WRITINGS OF POLISH CATHOLIC THEOLOGIANS, 1918-1939; 3. GERMAN CATHOLIC VIEWS OF JESUS AND JUDAISM, 1918-1945; 4. CATHOLIC THEOLOGY AND THE CHALLENGE OF NAZISM; II. CHRISTIAN CLERGY AND THE EXTREME RIGHT WING; 5. WORKING FOR THE FUHRER: FATHER DR. PHILIPP HAEUSER AND THE THIRD REICH; 6. THE IMPACT OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WR UPON ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY IN NAZI GERMANY

7. FAITH, MURDER, RESURRECTION: THE IRON GUARD AND THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHIII. POSTWAR JEWISH-CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTERS; 8. THE GERMAN PROTESTANT CHURCH AND ITS JUDENMISSION, 1945-1950; 9. SHOCK, RENEWAL, CRISIS: CATHOLIC REFLECTIONS ON THE SHOAH; IV. VIEWING EACH OTHER; 10. WARTIME JEWISH ORTHODOXY'S ENCOUNTER WITH HOLOCAUST CHRISTIANITY; 11. CONFRONTING ANTISEMITISM: RABBI PHILIP SIDNEY BERNSTEIN AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY; 12. OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES? RELIGION AND RACE IN NAZI ANTISEMITISM

Notes:

The scholars whose essays appear in this volume met at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in the summer of 2004 for a workshop about the Holocaust and antisemitism in Christian Europe"-- Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253116741

0253116740

OCLC:

614477987