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Article: A Jew in Rome: Christian Antisemitism and the Holocaust (Part 2).
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- July 1, 2001
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One of the goals of my visit to Rome was to walk the sweets and learn the history of that seven-acre section of the city known as the Jewish Ghetto. With this in mind, I called the office of SIDIC, an acronym for Service International de Documentation Judeo-Chretienne, and spoke with a nun named Sister Margaret. Although my guidebook indicated that SIDIC offered walking tours of the Jewish Ghetto, these tours were no longer available. However, Sister Margaret said that she would fax me a map and a detailed history of the ghetto.
I was perplexed. Why would an organization within the Catholic Church publicize the history of the Jewish Ghetto, which had been ...