Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust

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I N D E X Adam (biblical), 239, 241, 258, 259 Adam, Karl, 51, 59–63, 68–71, 83, 85– 86, 95; The Son of God, 60–63, 68; The Spirit of Catholicism, 59–60 Adenauer, Konrad, 67 Adorno, Theodor W., 211 Agudat Yisrael, 251, 262 Altgeld, Wolfgang, 225 Althaus, Paul, 115–16 Amalek, 238–43, 248–50, 257 American Jewish Congress, 272, 283n9 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 209, 283n8 Amici Israel (Friends of Israel), xvi–xvii, 28, 29 Amos (prophet), 243 Anschluß, 226 anthropology, 76, 95–98 Anti-Comintern ministery, 123 anti-Judaism: Adversus Judeo literature, 221; anti-Jewish legislation, 16, 20, 21, 221; Christian anti-Judaism, xvi– xviii, 224–25; distinguished from antisemitism, ix, xv, 17, 193, 195n4; German Protestant theology, 174, 179, 181–84; in Germany, 51, 57, 59, 61–62, 68–72, 179, 181–84, 221–22; postwar era, 213. See also antisemitism ; religious antisemitism Antichrist/Antichrist movement, 16, 36, 37, 298 antimodernism, 16 Antisemiten-Liga, 224 antisemitism: contradictions of, 6–7; Coughlin radio program, 272–74; Danish Lutheran Church, 7–22; Der Stürmer, 115; distinguished from anti-Judaism, ix, xv, 17, 193, 195n4; Germany, 68–72, 174, 183, 204, 297– 300; Gospel of Matthew, 34–35, 69; of Haeuser, 108–11, 114; of Hitler, 297– 300, 307nn58,71; Jewish leaders’ response to, 263, 269n45, 271, 278– 79; Judeo-Communist linkage, xviii, 38, 123, 124, 126, 280–81; legacy of, ix–xi, xx–xxi, 285–304; and Martin Luther, 4, 10, 305n15, 307n53; Medieval Europe, 11; nationalconservatism , 204; opposition to, 201–207, 270–82; postwar resurgence , 210–11; racial religious formulations of, 285–304; repudiation of, 193–95, 196n5, 201–26; Romania, 136, 138–40, 142–50, 159–60; Spanish Civil War, 122–23; terminology of, xv, 17, 193, 195n4, 224–25. See also anti-Judaism; Jewish Question; Judeo-Bolshevism linkage; racial antisemitism ; religious antisemitism; stereotypes of Jews Antonescu, Ion, 137, 151–52, 156, 158– 61, 164 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 52, 89 Arăpaşu, Teoctist, 164 Archutowski, Józef, 35 Arendt, Hannah, 63 Aryan race, ontology of, 291–98, 302 Ashkenazim, 10, 15, 24n18 Asmussen, Hans, 175 Assenheim, Germany, 181, 197n22 assimilation, 17–19, 180, 247 Association of Christian Students (Romania), 141, 142 Ateneum Kap™ańskie, 32, 33, 42 atheism, 126 Augsburg diocese, 112–14 Augustine, Saint, 27, 34, 44n3, 58, 88, 89 Auschwitz, 67, 219, 220, 249, 250 Austria, 132, 162, 201–208, 226, 283nn8–9 Ba’al Shem Tov, 249 Baeck, Leo, 187–88, 208, 212, 218 Bak, Sofie, 8, 24n28, 25n31 Balslev, Benjamin, 6–7 Balslev, Ulrich, 19 Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 63 Bamberger, Nathan, 3 Banea, Ion, 146 314 Index baptism of Jews, 27–28, 40, 44n2, 110, 160, 195, 253. See also conversion theology Bärsch, Claus-Ekkehard, 306n31 Barth, Karl, 70, 186; The Epistle to the Romans, 54–55, 56 Bartholdy, Christian, 16, 24n28 Bartmann, Bernhard, 51, 55–59, 68–71; Jesus Christ, Our Savior and King, 56– 59, 68; Manual of Dogmatic Theology, 55–59; Positive Christianity in the Catholic View, 58–59 Basel Jewish Mission, 197n11 Bavaria, 106, 108, 179–80 Bea, Augustin, 79, 217 Beckmann, Joachim, 190 Ben Avner, Yehudah, 269n45 Ben-Chorin, Schalom, 212 Benedict XV, 52, 54 Benedict XVI, xx Berlin: Berlin-Weissensee Synod, 175, 189–95; Federation for Mission to Israel, 197n11; German Evangelical Church Rally (1961), 195 Bernstein, Philip Sydney, xix, 270–82; advocate for displaced persons, 272, 278–81; and August Hlond, 271, 276–78, 281–82; and Edward Mooney, 271–75, 280–82; and Father Coughlin, 272–74, 281; Holocaust articles, 275–76, 282, 283n22; International Military Tribunal (IMT), 270–71; Kielce pogrom, 276–78, 280–81; and Pius XII, 271, 278–82; and Samuel Stritch, 271, 277, 282 Bertram, Adolph, 132, 229n55 Besier, Gerhard, 127, 129 the Bible: approaches to interpretation, 69–70; bible movement and German Catholic theology, 53–54; biblical Judaism in Polish Catholic theology, 32–33; New Testament, 54, 89, 173, 264, 291, 303. See also Gospels; Old Testament Bichlmair, Georg, 205, 226 Billerbeck, Paul, 38, 42 Blædel, Nicolai Gottlieb, 13 Blaszczyk, Henryk, 276–78 Board of the Association of Rabbis (Poland), 41 Boldeanu, Vasile, 163 Bolshevism: pastoral letter against, 129– 30; Spanish Civil War, 121–34; as threat to Christianity, 125–32, 224, 225. See also Judeo-Bolshevism linkage Bonhoe√er, Dietrich, 89, 189, 209 Bonsirven, Joseph, 33, 42 Boos, Josefa, 119n43 Bormann, Martin, 295 Botschko, Eliyahu, 260–61 Bradescu, Faust, 163–64 Brandes, Georg, 4, 14 Bratislava, 250, 268n44...