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The Popes against the Jews
the Vatican's role in the rise of modern anti-semitism
By Kertzer, David I.
- ISBN
- 978-0-37540-623-2
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2001
Kertzer (history, Brown Univ.) expands on a theme he first developed in The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (LJ 5/1/97). In his latest book, he exposes a trail of anti-Semitic papal policies and practices that stretched from the French Revolution to the era of the Final Solution. Kertzer argues that the modern popes and their minions helped create and perpetuate an anti-Semitic Catholic culture tha...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
