{"id":1023,"date":"2009-03-29T11:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T11:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2022-03-25T02:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:45:46","slug":"the-chief-rabbi-the-pope-and-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/the-chief-rabbi-the-pope-and-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Robert Weisbord, Wallace Sillanpoa, <em>The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust<\/em>, Transaction Publishers, 1991<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-accordion\"><a class=\"trigger\" href=\"#\">Robert Weisbord <\/a>\r\n\t   \t\t   <div class=\"content\">Robert Weisbord is a professor of history at the University of Rhodes Island. BOOKS The Chief Rabbi, the Pope and the Holocaust: An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1992), written with Wallace P. Sillanpoa. Israel in the Black American Perspective (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985), assisted by Richard Kazarian. Genocide?: Birth Control and the Black American (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press and Two Continents, 1975). Ebony Kinship: African, Africans, and the Afro-American (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1973). Bittersweet Encounter: The Afro-American and the American Jew (Westport, Connecticut: Negro University Press, 1970), written with Arthur Stein. This book was also published in paperback edition by Schocken books in the fall of 1972. African Zion: The Attempt to Establish a Jewish Colony in the East Africa Protectorate 1903-1905 (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1968). RECENT ARTICLES \u201c1930\u2019s Olympic Spirit Was Marred by Prejudice,\u201d Jewish Voice and Herald, August, 2004, p. 43. \u201cThe King, the Cardinal, and the Pope: Leopold II\u2019s Genocide in the Congo and the Vatican,\u201d Journal of Genocide Research, 5 (2003), 35-45. \u201cPope Pius XII and the Christmas Broadcast,\u201d Jewish Currents, (March-April 2003), pp. 10-12. \u201cA Question of Race: Pope Pius XII and the \u2018Colored Troops\u2019 in Italy,\u201d The Historian, 65 (Winter 2002): 404-417. \u201cReciprocal Respect: Blacks, Jews, and the Holocaust,\u201d Jewish Currents, (January-February 2002), pp.4-8. \u201cCruelty in the Congo-Rhode Island\u2019s Model Legislator, \u201cProvidence Journal, 11 March 2000 (with Robert Gutchen). \u201cKissing Kids: Don\u2019t Chuckle,\u201d Providence Journal, 22 February 1997. Preface to Robert A. Rockaway\u2019s, The Jews Cannot Defeat Me: The Anti-Jewish Campaign of Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam (Tel Aviv University, 1995). \u201cBlack American Perceptions of the Titanic,\u201d Journal of Popular Culture, 28 (Winter 1994), pp. 245-250. \u201cJews, Black Muslims and the Slave Rebel Nat Turner,\u201d Jewish Spectator (Winter 1994-1995), pp.40-41. \u201cWhite Racism, Apes, and Asininty,\u201d Providence Journal, 16 June 1994. \u201cMax Schmeling: Righteous Ring Warrior,\u201d History Today (January 1993), pp. 36-41.<\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Picture-19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1025\" src=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Picture-19-150x150.png\" alt=\"Picture 19\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome\u2019s ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists in Italy and throughout the Jewish world by converting to Catholicism and taking as his baptismal name, Eugenio. Almost a half a century after his conversion, Zolli still evokes anger and embarrassment in Italy\u2019s Jewish community. This book is the first authoritative treatment of this astonishing story.<\/p>\n<p>What induced Zolli to embrace Catholicism will probably never be known. Nonetheless, by painstaking scholarly detective work, through interviews in Italy and elsewhere, through the unearthing of private papers not previous known to exist, and through the study of previous inaccessible archival materials, the authors have succeeded in explaining why Zolli left the Jewish fold and joined the Catholic Church. Like Zolli\u2019s rabbinical career, Pius XII\u2019s long pontificate tells us much about the Church of Rome and its relationship to the Jewish people, particularly with reference to the issue of conversion.<\/p>\n<p>The authors focus on the pontiff\u2019s World War II policies vis&#8211;vis the Jews, a subject that has been heatedly debated since Rolf Hochhuth\u2019s The Deputy was performed in the early 1960s. What Pacelli knew abut the extermination of the Jews and when he knew it, what he said and failed to say, are given special attention in this book. Through the examination of previous scholarship and primary materials (including Pius XI\u2019s encyclical on race and anti-Semitism, Pacelli\u2019s behavior is evaluated to determine if Zolli accurately gauged the Holy Father\u2019s efforts to save Jews. This saga of the two Eugenios will interest historians of the Second World War and the Holocaust and students of history alike.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Weisbord, Wallace Sillanpoa, The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust, Transaction Publishers, 1991 In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome\u2019s ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust - Printed_Matter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/the-chief-rabbi-the-pope-and-the-holocaust\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust - 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