Chief rabbi, the pope, and the holocaust, the: an era in vatican-jewish relationships
Auteur :
Sillanpoa, Wallace P.
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN :
9780887384165
Date de publication :
30 janv. 1991
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
544 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome's 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, to honor Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) for what Zolli saw as his great humanitarianism toward the Jews during the Holocaust