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

Contributor(s): Series: Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 21.Publication details: New York : Published for the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry by Oxford University Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 383 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1429403020
  • 9781429403023
  • 0195345711
  • 9780195345711
  • 9786610846436
  • 661084643X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jews, Catholics, and the burden of history.DDC classification:
  • 261.2/6/09045 22
LOC classification:
  • BM535 .J49 2005eb
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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.

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