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THANKS
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Peter S. Kalikow
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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)
Book Review by Elena Mazzini (University of Pisa) Historiographical literature has paid a good deal of attention to reconstructing the events surrounding the Holy See, how the Christian churches had to come to terms with the advancing process of the Nazification of the European continent and the compromises and strategies for coexistence which resulted. The same is true of studies dealing with the history of anti-Semitism, its Christian roots, and the fluctuations, in instances and practices, of its manifestation and decline during various periods of modern and contemporary history. Read |
PRINTED MATTER PIUS XII AND THE 16TH OF OCTOBER 1943
Sergio Itzhak Minerbi (by courtesy of "Italia", Magnes Press).
The 16th of October 1943 will remain in the memory of Italian Jews as the tragic day on which the German SS carried out the big roundup against the Jews of Rome, directly 'under the windows' of the Vatican, as Ambassador Ernst von Weizs�cker put it.
In this essay I wish to raise some questions about the involvement of the Vatican, and particularly of Pope Pius XII, regarding the Jews of Rome before, during, and after the fateful 16th of October 1943. Read
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MOKED ELIA DALLA COSTA NAMED RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS
Yad Vashem named Elia Dalla Costa, - the Archbishop of Florence between 1931 to 1961- Righteous Among the Nations, eliciting strong and sometimes diverging reaction within Italian Catholic and Jewish public opinion. According to the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, the recognition will contribute to the consolidation of a common memory between Christians and Jews. Dalla Costa's wartime efforts in favor of the Jews is seen as the practical example of the Vatican's compassionate action. Italian Jewish groups instead see in the Archbishop's deeds as an individual action stemming from his conscience, rather than orders from above. Many in fact, regard his intervention as an example of what the Vatican could have done.
In November 1943, as the Nazis carried out two separate roundups of the Jews of Florence, Archbishop Dalla Costa, responding to the appeal of the underground Jewish relief organization DELASEM, gave orders to open up 21 convents other religious institutions to Jewish refugees. Dalla Costa 's rescue plan was coordinated by Don Leto Casini, Father Cipriano Ricotti and Monsignor Giacomo Meneghello three clergymen who worked directly with DELASEM. As early as 1938, when Hitler had come to Florence on an official visit to meet with Mussolini, the Archbishop avoided all contact with the Nazi leader and did not participated in the official celebrations. Adam Smulevich discussed the implication of this recognition for Moked. Read
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PRINTED MATTER "CI E' ANDATA BENE," "WE WERE LUCKY". A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERTO LEVI
Alessandro Cassin
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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