"The Tragic Couple"

James W. Bernauer, Ph.D. (1981) in Philosophy , S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook is the Kraft Family Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College where he is also Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. He has published extensively on the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, including Amor mundi: explorations in the faith and thought of Hannah Arendt (Martinus Nijhoff, 1987) and Michel Foucault's force of flight: toward an ethics for thought (HPI, 1990).Robert A. Maryks, Ph.D. (2006) in History, Fordham University, is Associate Professor at CUNY and Visiting Scholar at the Jesuit Institute of Boston College. He has published on various aspects of the history of the Jesuits, including Saint Cicero and the Jesuits (Ashgate, 2008), The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2009), and Pouring Jewish Water into Fascist Wine (Brill, 2011). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Jesuit Studies and Brill's book series of Jesuit Studies.

• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction James Bernauer and Robert A. MaryksPart one: JESUITS AND NEW CHRISTIANS1. The Watershed of Conversion: Antonio Possevino, New Christians, and Jews Emanuele Colombo2. Negotiating Relationship: Jesuits and Portuguese Conversos—A ReassessmentClaude B. Stuczynski Part two: JESUITS, JEWS, AND MODERNITY3. Polemics of Confessionalization: Depictions of Jews and Jesuits in Early Modern Germany Dean Phillip Bell4. The Suppression of the Jesuits and the Enlightenment Discourse of Jewish Emancipation: Two Parallel Historical Phenomena Diego Lucci5. Jesuit Influence on Italian Jewish Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries Gianfranco Miletto6. From Kaifeng to Shanghai via Rome and Paris: Jesuits and the History of Judaism in China Jeremy ClarkePart three: HATEFUL VISIONS7. Visions of Hate: Jews and Jesuits in the European FeuilletonLou Charnon-Deutsch8. Jesuits, Jews, and Communists: Portrayals of Jesuits and Other Catholic Religious in Nazi Newspapers during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39 Beth Griech-PolellePart four: IN THE SHADOW OF 20TH-CENTURY CATASTROPHEA. French Conflicts9. French Jesuits and Action Française Peter J. Bernardi10. A Jesuit Spiritual Insurrection: Resistance to Vichy James BernauerB. Italian Struggles11. The Anti-Semitism of La Civiltà Cattolica Revisited David Lebovitch Dahl12. Transforming Anti-Semitism: The Civiltà Cattolica after the Shoah, 1945–65 Elena Mazzini13. Vatican Radio and Anti-Semitism during the Second World War Raffaella Perin14. Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Mussolini, Pius XI, and the Jews David I. Kertzer15. The Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi and the Rescue of Italian Jews Robert A. MaryksC. American Contrasts16. “Correct and Christian”: American Jesuit Support of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s Anti-Semitism, 1935–38 Charles Gallagher17. “Accepted and Welcome”: The Unlikely Response of the Jesuits at Marquette University to Jewish Applicants during the Interwar Years, 1920–40 Michael J. BurnsEpilogue18. Joseph Bonsirven, SJ: A Pioneer of a Theologian of Judaism before Vatican II Thérèse AndrevonIndex

"The book is fascinating and generally well edited; the reality it describes is indeed largely tragic." – Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University, in: Renaissance Quarterly 67/4 (Winter 2014), pp. 1395-1396"This volume is of the highest order. It contains an all-star cast, bringing together prize-winning scholars like David Kertzer and Charles Gallagher, S.J. Remarkable is its nearly total absence of second-rate chapters; all eighteen essays engage with historiographical questions and shed new light onto the often painful relationships between Jews and Jesuits. For specialists, this volume will be a tremendous asset. It is a window into the historiography and a fount for reflection." – Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University, in: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 11/1 (2016)