Wallace P Sillanpoa

The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust

An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome's ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists in Italy and throughout the Jewish world by converting to Catholicism and taking as his baptismal name, Eugenio, to honor Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) for what Zolli saw as his great humanitarianism toward the Jews during the Holocaust

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781412807913
• ISBN-10: 1412807913
• Artikelnr.: 23337194

Autorenporträt

Wallace P. Sillanpoa

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The Jews and the Papacy
3. The Controversy Over Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Part I
4. The Controversy Over Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Part II
5. Chief Rabbi Zolli in Trieste
6. Chief Rabbi Zolli and the Holocaust
7. The Baptized Rabbi of Rome
8. The Zolli Conversion: Background
Motives
and Legacy
9. Epilogue-the Vatican and the Jews since the Holocaust
Bibliography
Index