"The Tragic Couple" : Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits.

"The Tragic Couple" : Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits.

The Tragic Couple is the first book length examination of the historical encounters between Jesuits and Jews from the modern period through the twentieth century where a special focus is placed on events leading to the Holocaust.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernauer, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brill, 2013.
Series:Studies in the history of Christian traditions.
Subjects:
Jesuits > Congresses.
Catholic Church > Relations > Judaism > History > Congresses.
Catholic Church
Jesuits
Judaism > Relations > Catholic Church > History > Congresses.
Interfaith relations
Judaism
Conference papers and proceedings
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "The Tragic Couple"; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART ONE: JESUITS AND NEW CHRISTIANS; 1. The Watershed of Conversion: Antonio Possevino, New Christians, and Jews; 2. Negotiated Relationships: Jesuits and Portuguese Conversos-A Reassessment; PART TWO: JESUITS, JEWS, AND MODERNITY; 3. Polemics of Confessionalization: Depictions of Jews and Jesuits in Early Modern Germany; 4. The Suppression of the Jesuits and the Enlightenment Discourse of Jewish Emancipation: Two Parallel Historical Phenomena.
  • 5. Jesuit Influence on Italian Jewish Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries6. From Kaifeng to Shanghai via Rome and Paris: Jesuits and the History of Judaism in China; PART THREE: HATEFUL VISIONS; 7. Visions of Hate: Jews and Jesuits in the European Feuilleton; 8. Jesuits, Jews, and Communists: Portrayals of Jesuits and other Catholic Religious in Nazi Newspapers during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39; PART FOUR: IN THE SHADOW OF 20TH-CENTURY CATASTROPHE; A. French Conflicts; 9. French Jesuits and Action Française; 10.A Jesuit Spiritual Insurrection: Resistance to Vichy; B. Italian Struggles.
  • 11. The Anti-Semitism of La Civiltà Cattolica Revisited12. Transforming Anti-Semitism: The Civiltà Cattolica after the Shoah (1945-65); 13. Vatican Radio and Anti-Semitism during the Second World War; 14. Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Mussolini, Pius XI, and the Jews; 15. The Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi and the Rescue of Italian Jews; C. American Contrasts; 16."Correct and Christian": American Jesuit Support of Father Charles E. Coughlin's Anti-Semitism, 1935-38.
  • 17."Accepted and Welcome": The Unlikely Response of the Jesuits at Marquette University to Jewish Applicants during the Interwar Years, 1920-4018. Joseph Bonsirven, SJ: A Pioneer of a Theologian of Judaism before Vatican II; Index.

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