The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations »

In 1946, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome's Jewish community converted to Catholicism, taking Eugenio as his baptismal name to honor Pope Pius XII for what Zolli saw as the Pope's great humanitarianism toward Jews during the Holocaust. The authors discuss the reasons Zolli joined the Catholic church, and examine the Pope's record to determine if Zolli was correct in his appraisal.

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
The Jews and the Papacy     11
The Controversy Over Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, Part I     33
The Controversy Over Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, Part II     61
Chief Rabbi Zolli in Trieste     89
Chief Rabbi Zolli and the Holocaust     111
The Baptized Rabbi of Rome     127
The Zolli Conversion: Background, Motives, and Legacy     151
Epilogue-the Vatican and the Jews since the Holocaust     179
Bibliography     205
Index     227