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Title Jews, Catholics, and the burden of history / edited by Eli Lederhendler
Published New York : Published for the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry by Oxford University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 383 pages)
Series Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 21
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 21. 0740-8625
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Catholic Church -- Relations -- Judaism.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Christianity and antisemitism.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
Christianity and antisemitism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Interfaith relations
Judaism
Jodendom.
Rooms-katholicisme.
Form Electronic book
Author Lederhendler, Eli
ISBN 1429403020
9781429403023
0195345711
9780195345711
9786610846436
661084643X