Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History offers a collection of new scholarship on the nature of the Jewish-Catholic encounter between 1945 and 2005, with an emphasis on how this relationship has emerged from the shadow of the Holocaust.
The newest volume of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, this volume features essays on the relationships between Jews and Catholics in postwar Brazil, Italy, Poland, and North America. It considers theological writings, as well as popular interactions. As is standard for the series, this volume contains review essays and book reviews.
