The Apostolic See and the Jews
Title | The Apostolic See and the Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Shlomo Simonsohn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Church history |
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The Apostolic See and the Jews
Title | The Apostolic See and the Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Shlomo Simonsohn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Church history |
ISBN |
The Apostolic See and the Jews
Title | The Apostolic See and the Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Catholic Church. Pope |
Publisher | |
Pages | 580 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Bulls, Papal |
ISBN |
Jewish Bankers and the Holy See
Title | Jewish Bankers and the Holy See PDF eBook |
Author | León Poliakov |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2012-05-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415523273 |
The Jewish community in Rome is the oldest in Europe, the only one to have existed continuously for over 2,000 years. This detailed study of the Jewish banking community in Italy is therefore of special value and interest. Poliakov’s classic account of the rise and fall of the Jewish bankers is at the same time the story of medieval finance in general, its decline, and the birth of ‘modern’ finance. The author traces the economic and theological implication of each stage in the ambiguous relationship that developed between the Jewish money trade and the Holy See. He shows that the protection enjoyed by the Jews from the Holy See had not only theological, but also economic roots. The study ends with an account of the introduction of modern, ‘capitalist’ techniques and of the consequent inevitable decline of the Jewish money trade.
The Apostolic See and the Jews
Title | The Apostolic See and the Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Catholic Church. Pope |
Publisher | Presses Univ. Septentrion |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Bulls, Papal |
ISBN | 9780888440945 |
The Pope's Jews
Title | The Pope's Jews PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Thomas |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2012-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1250013550 |
This revelatory account of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews during WWII shows why history must exonerate "Hitler's Pope" Accused of being "silent" during the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII and the Vatican of World War II are now exonerated in Gordon Thomas's newest investigative work, The Pope's Jews. Thomas's careful research into new, first-hand accounts reveal an underground network of priests, nuns and citizens that risked their lives daily to protect Roman Jews. Investigating assassination plots, conspiracies, and secret conversions, Thomas unveils faked documentation, quarantines, and more extraordinary actions taken by Catholics and the Vatican. The Pope's Jews finally answers the great moral question of the War: Why did Pope Pius XII refuse to condemn the genocide of Europe's Jews?
The Vatican and Zionism
Title | The Vatican and Zionism PDF eBook |
Author | Sergio I. Minerbi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780195058925 |
It seems odd that today, as the nations of Eastern Europe restore diplomatic ties to Israel, the Vatican still refuses to have normal relations with it. But, as Sergio Minerbi writes in this fascinating account, the Papacy has been consistently hostile to Zionism since before the First World War. Drawing on many unpublished documents from diplomatic archives, Minerbi brings to light the little-known role of the Vatican in relation both to the Great Powers and the Zionists in the early years of the twentieth century. Engaged in a complex balancing act involving the Ottoman rulers of Palestine, rival Christian churches (both Eastern Orthodox and Protestant), and the conflicting claims of Catholic countries with regard to the Protectorate over the Holy Places, the Vatican looked with dismay on the possibility of a Protestant British mandate--especially after the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which declared Whitehall's sympathy with Zionist aspirations. To the Vatican, a British mandate was disturbing, but a Jewish state was anathema. Vatican opposition to the formation of a Jewish homeland stemmed largely from traditional Christian anti-Semitism, which in modern times took the form of an equation of Zionism with Bolshevism, and ancient theological doctrines regarding Judaism. In 1904, the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl obtained an audience with Pope Pius X in the hope of persuading the pontiff to support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Herzl's hopes were dashed: the Pope's response to his requests was "Non possumus"--"We cannot." In 1917 Pius X's successor, Pope Benedict XV, received a later Zionist leader, Nahum Sokolow, with more courtesy, but displayed an equally sturdy refusal to support a Jewish state. The Zionists, who had pronounced themselves ready to respect the sanctity of the Holy Places, mistakenly believed that the Vatican would be satisfied with control over individual sites, rather than territory. The Vatican's bid for control over the territory encompassing the Holy Places ultimately failed. The international commission on the Holy Places it had hoped for was never formed, and it was not invited to attend the 1920 Sanremo conference, which decided the fate of Palestine. The Vatican, acting on the same fundamental policy, still refuses to establish diplomatic relations with the state of Israel. Intensively researched and trenchantly argued, The Vatican and Zionism sheds important new light on a critical but neglected episode in the history of Zionism and the Roman Catholic Church.