{"id":5519,"date":"2020-04-10T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5519"},"modified":"2020-04-10T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T15:15:33","slug":"april-2020-new-history-of-jesuits-changing-views-of-judaism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/?page_id=5519","title":{"rendered":"April 2020: New History of Jesuits&#8217; Changing Views of Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Bernauer, S.J., has published a new history of the development in Jesuits&#8217; attitudes towards Judaism in the mid 20th century.\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/undpress.nd.edu\/9780268107017\/jesuit-kaddish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, published by\u00a0University of Notre Dame Press, examines how\u00a0Jesuit hostility toward Judaism before the Holocaust gave way to a &#8220;new understanding of the Catholic Church&#8217;s relation to Judaism that culminated with Vatican II\u2019s landmark decree <em>Nostra aetate<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bernauer, a Jesuit priest and the Kraft Family Professor of Philosophy and the director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc.edu\/research\/cjl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Christian-Jewish Learning<\/a> at Boston College,\u00a0demonstrates how Jesuit hostility operated before identifying &#8220;an influential group of Jesuits whose thought and action contributed to the developments in Catholic teaching about Judaism.&#8221; Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea was instrumental in leading the post-war change. <em>Jesuit Kaddish<\/em> also contains an appendix presenting the fifteen Jesuits who have been honored as &#8220;Righteous Among the Nations&#8221; by Israel&#8217;s Yad Vashem Holocaust Center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More information about the book can be found at the publisher&#8217;s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/undpress.nd.edu\/9780268107017\/jesuit-kaddish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/undpress.nd.edu\/9780268107017\/jesuit-kaddish\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A citation for the book appears on the Jesuit Online Bibliography: <a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitonlinebibliography.bc.edu\/catalog\/18156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/jesuitonlinebibliography.bc.edu\/catalog\/18156<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bernauer, S.J., has published a new history of the development in Jesuits&#8217; attitudes towards Judaism in the mid 20th century.\u00a0Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance, published by\u00a0University of Notre Dame Press, examines how\u00a0Jesuit hostility toward Judaism before the Holocaust gave way to a &#8220;new understanding of the Catholic Church&#8217;s relation to Judaism that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":5520,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5519","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5523,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5519\/revisions\/5523"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}