Book Review: “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits. Edited by James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks

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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks Part one: JESUITS AND NEW CHRISTIANS 1. The Watershed of Conversion: Antonio Possevino, New Christians, and Jews Emanuele Colombo 2. Negotiating Relationship: Jesuits and Portuguese Conversos-A Reassessment Claude B. Stuczynski Part two: JESUITS, JEWS, AND MODERNITY 3. Polemics of Confessionalization: Depictions of Jews and Jesuits in Early Modern Germany Dean Phillip Bell 4. The Suppression of the Jesuits and the Enlightenment Discourse of Jewish Emancipation: Two Parallel Historical Phenomena Diego Lucci 5. Jesuit Influence on Italian Jewish Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries Gianfranco Miletto 6. From Kaifeng to Shanghai via Rome and Paris: Jesuits and the History of Judaism in China Jeremy Clarke Part three: HATEFUL VISIONS 7. Visions of Hate: Jews and Jesuits in the European Feuilleton Lou Charnon-Deutsch 8. Jesuits, Jews, and Communists: Portrayals of Jesuits and Other Catholic Religious in Nazi Newspapers during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 Beth Griech-Polelle Part four: IN THE SHADOW OF 20TH-CENTURY CATASTROPHE A. French Conflicts 9. French Jesuits and Action Francaise Peter J. Bernardi 10. A Jesuit Spiritual Insurrection: Resistance to Vichy James Bernauer B. Italian Struggles 11. The Anti-Semitism of La Civilta Cattolica Revisited David Lebovitch Dahl 12. Transforming Anti-Semitism: The Civilta Cattolica after the Shoah, 1945-65 Elena Mazzini 13. Vatican Radio and Anti-Semitism during the Second World War Raffaella Perin 14. Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Mussolini, Pius XI, and the Jews David I. Kertzer 15. The Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi and the Rescue of Italian Jews Robert A. Maryks C. American Contrasts 16. Correct and Christian: American Jesuit Support of Father Charles E. Coughlin's Anti-Semitism, 1935-38 Charles Gallagher 17. Accepted and Welcome: The Unlikely Response of the Jesuits at Marquette University to Jewish Applicants during the Interwar Years, 1920-40 Michael J. Burns Epilogue 18. Joseph Bonsirven, SJ: A Pioneer of a Theologian of Judaism before Vatican II Therese Andrevon Index