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PROGRAMS FROM ENEMY TO BROTHER: THE REVOLUTION IN CATHOLIC TEACHING ON THE JEWS 1933-1965
December 4 at 7:00 pm | Simon Wiesenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance | 226 E 42nd Street New York, NY 10017
Admisison: $10 - Tickets at www.museumoftolerancenewyork.com
Meet the author: John Connelly (University of California, Berkeley)
In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed by God and, in the 1940s, mostly kept silent as Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis. How did an institution whose wisdom is said to be unchanging undertake one of the most enormous, yet undiscussed, ideological swings in modern history?
From Enemy to Brother illuminates the baffling silence of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust, showing how the ancient teaching of deicide-according to which the Jews were condemned to suffer until they turned to Christ-constituted the Church's only language to talk about the Jews. As he explores the process of theological change, John Connelly moves from the speechless Vatican to those Catholics who endeavored to find a new language to speak to the Jews on the eve of, and in the shadow of, the Holocaust. Read
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PRINTED MATTER "CI E' ANDATA BENE," "WE WERE LUCKY". A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERTO LEVI
Alessandro Cassin
"Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment, despite all logic; and for all that, compassion eludes logic." - Primo Levi
Valmosca 1943 : with the tacit complicity of a small town, a local Christian family takes in a Jewish family, offering shelter and protection during the hardest of times.
Despite the Racial Laws of 1938- signed by the King and never opposed by the Catholic Church- which stripped them of basic human rights as well as much of their material possessions, the lives of the Jews in Italy had not been physically threatened.
After September 8, 1943, the plight of the Jews in central and northern Italy became dramatic. The Nazis and the diehard Fascists of the Italian Social Republic organized raids based on the lists provided by the police: a true manhunt for Jews. Yet, next to informers and fascist collaborators, there were individuals who risked their lives and did not hesitate to hide their fellow citizens of the Jewish faith. Read
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BOOKS IN THE SOCIETY OF FASCISTS: ACCLAMATION, ACQUIESCENCE, AND AGENCY IN MUSSOLINI'S ITALY
Roberta Pergher and Giulia Albanese, Palgrave Macmillan
It has been a commonplace in Italian scholarship that Fascism enjoyed its long tenure not through terror but because of widespread popular consensus.
By contrast a recent wave of research has reintroduced the notion of 'totalitarianism' to discussions of Mussolini's regime-yet often without testing the degree of active participation or opposition. So what was the relationship between Fascists and followers, party and people?
Bringing together young Italian scholars-many appearing for the first time in English-engaged in new research on both elites and ordinary people, this volume offers a wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Italian society's involvement in Fascism. Read
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