The Catholic Church and the Jews
Subtitle: Argentina, 1933-1945
By: Graciela Ben-Dror.
Series: Studies in antisemitism
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln, Neb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780803218895
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century; Catholic Church -- Relations -- Judaism; Jews -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century; Christianity and antisemitism -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Foreign public opinion; Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church; Holocaust (Christian theology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Catholic Church in Argentina and antisemitism. The consolidation of the Catholic Church in Argentina ; The consolidation of antisemitism ; The stance of the Catholic hierarchy toward the Jews ; The turning point: the military coup and Catholic Argentina, 1943-1945; title: The Catholic Church in Argentina and its attitude to Nazism and the Holocaust. The position of the Catholic hierarchy in Argentina on the Nazi regime ; The attitude of the clergy to Nazism and the Jewish refugees ; The World War and its implications for the Argentinean Church ; The Argentinean Church and the plight of European Jewry, 1938-1942; title: The reaction of Argentine Catholics to the mass murder of European Jews, 1942-1943 ; The end of the war: turning point or continuation?