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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817640903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press

Washington, D.C., : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, c2007

ISBN

0-253-11674-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SpicerKevin P. <1965->

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

Antisemitism - Europe - History

Antisemitism - Germany - History

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany

Christianity and antisemitism

National socialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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