The Catholic Church and Antisemitism

By: Ronald Modras

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Paperback | 8 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Interwar Poland was home to more Jews than any other country in Europe. Its commonplace but simplistic identification with antisemitism was due largely to nationalist efforts to boycott Jewish business. That they failed was not for want of support by the Catholic clergy, for whom the "Jewish question" was more than economic. The myth of a Masonic-Jewish alliance to subvert Christian culture first flourished in France but held considerable sway over Catholics in 1930s Poland as elsewhere. This book examines how, following Vatican policy, Polish church leaders resisted separation of church and state in the name of Catholic culture. In that struggle, every assimilated Jew served as both a symbol and a potential agent of secularity. Antisemitism is no longer regarded as a legitimate political stance. But in Europe, the United States and the Middle East, the issues of religious culture, national dentity and minorities are with us still. This study of interwar Poland sheds light on dilemmas that continue to exercise even Western democracies.

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"'This is an excellent scholarly book which also carries strong humanitarian appeal. The author places Polish Antisemitism in both a national and international context. He clearly defends his thesis that Polish attitudes were fully in accord with the outlook of Rome, especially the papal obsession with liberalism and secularism.'." -John Klier of University College, London

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