"the Tragic Couple"

Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26021-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 169, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 677 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has become a leader in the dialogue between Jews and Catholics as was manifested in the role that the Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea played in the adoption by the Second Vatican Council of Nostra Aetate, the charter for that new relationship. Still the encounters between Jesuits and Jews were often characterized by animosity and this historical record made them a tragic couple, related but estranged. This volume is the first examination of the complex interactions between Jesuits and Jews from the early modern period in Europe and Asia through the twentieth century where special attention is focused on the historical context of the Holocaust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernauer, James

Maryks, Robert Aleksander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors

Introduction
James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks

Part one: JESUITS AND NEW CHRISTIANS
1. The Watershed of Conversion: Antonio Possevino, New Christians, and Jews
Emanuele Colombo
2. Negotiating Relationship: Jesuits and Portuguese Conversos—A Reassessment
Claude B. Stuczynski

Part two: JESUITS, JEWS, AND MODERNITY
3. Polemics of Confessionalization: Depictions of Jews and Jesuits in Early Modern Germany
Dean Phillip Bell
4. The Suppression of the Jesuits and the Enlightenment Discourse of Jewish Emancipation: Two Parallel Historical Phenomena
Diego Lucci
5. Jesuit Influence on Italian Jewish Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Gianfranco Miletto
6. From Kaifeng to Shanghai via Rome and Paris: Jesuits and the History of Judaism in China
Jeremy Clarke

Part three: HATEFUL VISIONS
7. Visions of Hate: Jews and Jesuits in the European Feuilleton
Lou Charnon-Deutsch
8. Jesuits, Jews, and Communists: Portrayals of Jesuits and Other Catholic Religious in Nazi Newspapers during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39
Beth Griech-Polelle

Part four: IN THE SHADOW OF 20TH-CENTURY CATASTROPHE

A. French Conflicts
9. French Jesuits and Action Française
Peter J. Bernardi
10. A Jesuit Spiritual Insurrection: Resistance to Vichy
James Bernauer

B. Italian Struggles
11. The Anti-Semitism of La Civiltà Cattolica Revisited
David Lebovitch Dahl
12. Transforming Anti-Semitism: The Civiltà Cattolica after the Shoah, 1945–65
Elena Mazzini
13. Vatican Radio and Anti-Semitism during the Second World War
Raffaella Perin
14. Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Mussolini, Pius XI, and the Jews
David I. Kertzer
15. The Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi and the Rescue of Italian Jews
Robert A. Maryks

C. American Contrasts
16. “Correct and Christian”: American Jesuit Support of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s Anti-Semitism, 1935–38
Charles Gallagher
17. “Accepted and Welcome”: The Unlikely Response of the Jesuits at Marquette University to Jewish Applicants during the Interwar Years, 1920–40
Michael J. Burns

Epilogue
18. Joseph Bonsirven, SJ: A Pioneer of a Theologian of Judaism before Vatican II
Thérèse Andrevon
Index

Über Autor(innen)

James W. Bernauer, Ph.D. (1981) in Philosophy, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook is the Kraft Family Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College where he is also Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. He has published extensively on the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, including Amor mundi: explorations in the faith and thought of Hannah Arendt (Martinus Nijhoff, 1987) and Michel Foucault's force of flight: toward an ethics for thought (HPI, 1990).

Robert A. Maryks, Ph.D. (2006) in History, Fordham University, is Associate Professor at CUNY and Visiting Scholar at the Jesuit Institute of Boston College. He has published on various aspects of the history of the Jesuits, including Saint Cicero and the Jesuits (Ashgate, 2008), The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2009), and Pouring Jewish Water into Fascist Wine (Brill, 2011). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Jesuit Studies and Brill's book series of Jesuit Studies.