Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History [Hardcover]

Volume XXI of the distinguished annualStudies in Contemporary Jewrymarks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith.Jews, Catholics, and the Burden ofHistoryoffers a collection of new scholarship on the nature of the Jewish-Catholic encounter between 1945 and 2005, with an emphasis on how this relationship has emerged from the shadow of the Holocaust.

TheStudies in Contemporary Jewryseries is edited byJonathan Frankel,Eli Lederhendler,Peter Y. Medding, andEzra Mendelsohn, who teach Jewish history, society, and politics at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Eli Lederhendler, the editor of Volume XXI, is the Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University. He is the author ofNew York Jews and the Decline of the Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970, among other titles.