The Catholic Church and the Jewish People: Recent Reflections from Rome

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Notes 1. Paths Taken and Enduring Questions in Jewish-Christian Relations Today: Thirty Years of the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews Cardinal Walter Kasper 1. Jules Isaac, The Teaching of Contempt: Christian Roots of Anti-Semitism (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston), 1964. 2. Editors’ Note: Cardinal Kasper had more fully developed some of these topics in a lecture delivered at Boston College on November 6, 2002, available on the Vatican’s website at: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/ pontifical_councils/chrstuni/card-kasper -docs/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_200211 06_kasper-boston-college_en.html. See especially section III. 2. Progress and Issues of the Dialogue from a Jewish Viewpoint Rabbi Dr. Riccardo Di Segni 1. Augustin Cardinal Bea, ‘‘Il popolo ebraico nel piano divino della salvezza,’’ Civilità Cattolica 4 (1965): 209–29, reprinted in L. Sestieri and G. Cereti, eds., Le Chiese cristiane e l’ebraismo, 1947–1982 (Casale Monferrato : Marietti, 1983), 95. See also Augustin Cardinal Bea, The Church and the Jewish People: A Commentary on the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1966). Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) appears to follow this point of view when he claims that ‘‘in the Old Testament [the people of God] was the people of Israel, from Christ onwards the new people is that of his disciples’’ (Il Tempo, February 27, 2004, 7). 2. Television interview, CNN International, February 24, 2004. 3. This is suggested in provocative fashion by Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum , ‘‘Ecumenical Dialogue, Why Bother?’’ Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2004, 20. 242 / Notes to pages 26–48 3. Jewish Perspectives on Christianity Rabbi Giuseppe Laras 1. Editors’ note: The same verse is cited in Nostra Aetate, 4, in support of an eschatological hope for the day, known to God alone, on which all peoples will address the Lord in a single voice. 4. Reflections toward Jewish-Christian Dialogue Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini 1. The notes to this contribution have been added by the editors. See Bruno Forte’s contribution elsewhere in this volume. 2. Statement to the press from the meeting of the bilateral committee of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Grottaferrata, Rome, October 17–19, 2004. See Norbert J. Hofmann’s contribution elsewhere in this volume and appendix 3. 3. This refers to the group called Parents Circle (www.theparents circle.com). 4. Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Redemptionis Anno, April 20, 1984. English text in Eugene J. Fisher and Leon Klenicki, eds., Spiritual Pilgrimage : John Paul II—Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979–1995 (New York: Crossroad, 1995), 33–37. 5. Statement to the press from the meeting of the bilateral committee of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, Grottaferrata, Rome, October 17–19, 2004. See Norbert Hofmann’s contribution elsewhere in this volume. 6. Ibid. 7. June 14, 1984. See Fisher and Klenicki, 38. 5. The Difficult Apprenticeship of Diversity Anna Foa 1. On this theme, which is the subject of a vast bibliography, see Piero Stefani, Antigiudaismo. Storia di un’idea (Roma: Laterza, 2004); and Heinz Schreckenberg, The Jews in Christian Art: An Illustrated History (London: SCM, 1996). 2. See Kenneth R. Stow, Alienated Minority. The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992); and Anna Foa, The Jews of Europe after the Black Death (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 3. See Roberto Bonfil, Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994). 4. See Ariel Toaff, Love, Work, and Death: Jewish Life in Medieval Umbria (London/Portland, Ore.: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1996). 5. See Bernhard Blumenkranz, Le Juif médiéval au miroir de l’art chrétien (Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1966). 6. See Anna Foa, Eretici. Storie di streghe, ebrei e convertiti (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004). Notes to pages 48–61 / 243 7. The fundamental work in this area is the study by Attilio Milano, Il ghetto di Roma. Illustrazioni storiche (Roma: Carducci, 1964). See also Kenneth R. Stow, Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the Sixteenth Century (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001). 8. On these aspects, see Luciano Allegra, Identitá in bilico. Il ghetto ebraico di Torino nel Settecento (Torino: Zamorani, 1996). 9. The bibliography on this topic is virtually endless. See, among others, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi...