The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism - Brossura

Kertzer, David I.

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ISBN 10: 0375706054 ISBN 13: 9780375706059

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2002

Riassunto

Drawing on previously hidden Vatican sources and archival materials, a provovative historical study traces the evolution of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church from the French Revolution to World War II and assesses the Church's role in promoting and disseminating a centuries-long demonization of the Jews throughout Europe that led to the Holocaust. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Important. . . . Fascinating. . . . [A] riveting piece of historical detective work.” --The New York Times

“Scrupulous....Significant and compelling.” —The Washington Post

“The material is dynamite.” --The Times (London)

“Popes Against the Jews . . . demolishes the findings of We Remember.” --The Boston Globe

“This reviewer is grateful to Kertzer for having written such a compelling narrative. His thesis is shocking and disturbing. . . . An important book.” --The Irish Times

“Riveting.” -- Globe & Mail (Toronto)

“Kertzer [has the] extraordinary ability to present the most painful, religiously radioactive material with a coolness that makes his findings . . . devastating. . . . Its superb, meticulous scholarship is a benchmark by which other books on the subject must now be judged.” The Forward

“A profoundly well-documented book. . . . It is a work of brilliant narrative quality, an oppressive, unremitting and enraging report on what may be the most lethal period of official and quasi-official Catholic anti-Semitism.” --Providence Journal

L'autore:

David I. Kertzer was born in 1948 in New York City. He is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and a professor of anthropology and Italian studies at Brown University. He is the author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Popes Against the Jews was a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize and he has twice been awarded, in 1985 and 1990, the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best wrok on Italian history. He and his wife, Susan, live in Providence.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375706054
• ISBN 13: 9780375706059
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368