Two different though related books coexist uneasily within the covers of this volume by a Brown University historian, author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1997). The first is a compelling work of scholarship, based largely on David Kertzer’s extensive research in the Vatican’s own archives, documenting the church’s policy toward the Jews in the terri (...)
September 28, 2001
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The Popes against the Jews
The Popes Against the JewsThe Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism by David Kertzer Alfred A Knopf, $27.95, 355 pp.
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