Article: An indictment: half right.

 
The Popes against the Jews 
The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism. 
David Kertzer 
Alfred A Knopf, $27.95, 355 pp. 

Two different though related books coexist uneasily within the covers of this volume by a Brown University historian, author of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1997). The first is a compelling work of scholarship, based largely on David Kertzer's extensive research in the Vatican's own archives, documenting the church's policy toward the Jews in the territories where it held temporal power, and especially in Rome, during the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. In this treatment, the material is presented dispassionately, ...

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