History and Culture

In this section, we will include material regarding the history of the People Israel, as Jews and as Christians, and especially within the Catholic Church. We will also include material relating to the interactions and influences that the Christian and Jewish peoples have had upon each other. Below we have included a brief sampling of a few topics we expect to eventually cover. We welcome your suggestions.

Antisemitism • Art • Apostolic Era • Archaeological Findings • Catholic Jewish Relations • Crusades • Eretz Yisrael • Hebrew Language • Holocaust • Inquisition • Literature • Liturgy • Music • Popes and the Jews

Antisemitism

• On the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by David Moss
• Swinging at Windmills: A Close Look at Catholic Conspiracy Theories by Sandra Miesel

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Catholic Jewish Relations

• It Only Hurts When I Stop Laughing by Marilyn Prever
• Mixed Signals From the Vatican by Christopher Blosser

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Eretz Yisrael

• Virtual Israel Experience by the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
• Virtual Tour of Several Locations by the Franciscan Foundation of the Holy Land
• A Hebrew Catholic Bishop of Jerusalem by Andrew Sholl
• Arab Patriarch Sabbah Has an Auxiliary by Sandro Magister
• A Short Interview with Bishop Jean-Baptiste Gourion by S. R., Israel
  
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Holocaust

• Auschwitz the Christian and the Council by Msgr. John Oesterreicher, an online pamphlet
• Holocaust Educational Resources, the Nizkor Project
• Holocaust Cybrary, Remembering the Survivors
• Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority
• The Forgotten Holocaust: 5,000,000 non-Jewish Victims

Literature

The Impact of Jewish Literature on Christian Literture by Fr. Ed Fride

• 1. The Light Shines in the Darkness
• 2. In My Name

Friends 9/11 by Ken Gaertner

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Hebrew Language

• The Holy Tongue by Canon Michael Lewis
• The Mystical Meaning of the Hebrew Letters ­ by Judy Racz
   
• Hebrew Alphabet
• Hebrew Glossary
• Hebrew Phrases
• Starting with Aleph - An Online Course in Beginning Hebrew Reading and Jewish Values
  
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Music

• Oy to the World presents a Klezmer rendition of some Christmas songs. We can't sell it to you, but you can go to Oy to the World, listen to excerpts of the songs and then buy the CD there. You can also download a free copy of the title song. Other selections on the CD include: Away in a Manger, Carol of the Bells, Jingle Bells, Santa Geh Gezunder Heit, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, Deck the Halls, and We Three Kings of Orient Are.
   
• The Sacred Bridge by Rev. Samuel F. Weber, O.S.B.
• Hebrew Songs, An Audio Collection
   
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Popes and the Jews

Pope Benedict XVI

• Heritage of Abraham, Gift of Christmas by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
• Pope Benedict XVI and the Jews by Christopher Blosser

Pope John Paul II

• Visit to Yad Vashem, 23 March 2000

Pope John XXIII

• Pope John XXIII and the Jews by Joseph D'Hippolito

Pope Pius XII

• A Righteous Gentile: Pope Pius XII and the Jews, by Rabbi David Dalin, Ph.D.
• The Charity of Pope Pius XII, by Rabbi Israel Zolli, later known as Eugenio Zolli
• The Good Samaritan, Dimitri Cavalli collects Jewish praise during life of Pope Pius XII
• Pius XII and the Holocaust, A Reader. Dr. Joseph L. Lichten served as the director of the International Affairs Department for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in 1963 when he wrote the monograph included in this online book.
• The Truth about Pius XII, Sister Margherita Marchione. Ph.D relates some Jewish responses
  
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