The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism - Softcover

"Important. . . . Fascinating. . . . [A] riveting piece of historical detective work." --The New York Times

"Scrupulous....Significant and compelling." --The Washington Post

"The material is dynamite." --The Times (London)

"Popes Against the Jews . . . demolishes the findings of We Remember." --The Boston Globe

"This reviewer is grateful to Kertzer for having written such a compelling narrative. His thesis is shocking and disturbing. . . . An important book." --The Irish Times

"Riveting." -- Globe & Mail (Toronto)

"Kertzer [has the] extraordinary ability to present the most painful, religiously radioactive material with a coolness that makes his findings . . . devastating. . . . Its superb, meticulous scholarship is a benchmark by which other books on the subject must now be judged." The Forward

"A profoundly well-documented book. . . . It is a work of brilliant narrative quality, an oppressive, unremitting and enraging report on what may be the most lethal period of official and quasi-official Catholic anti-Semitism." --Providence Journal

Drawing on previously hidden Vatican sources and archival materials, a provovative historical study traces the evolution of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church from the French Revolution to World War II and assesses the Church's role in promoting and disseminating a centuries-long demonization of the Jews throughout Europe that led to the Holocaust. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.