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Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits “The Tragic Couple” Studies in the History of Christian Traditions General Editor Robert J. Bast Knoxville, Tennessee In cooperation with Henry Chadwick, Cambridge Paul C.H. Lim, Nashville, Tennessee Eric Saak, Liverpool Brian Tierney, Ithaca, New York Arjo Vanderjagt, Groningen John Van Engen, Notre Dame, Indiana Founding Editor Heiko A. Oberman† VOLUME 169 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/shct “The Tragic Couple” Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits Edited by James Bernauer Robert A. Maryks LEIDEN • BOSTON 2014 On the cover: Cardinal Augustin Bea S.J. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Courtesy of the American Jewish Archives (Marc Tanenbaum Collection). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data “The tragic couple” : encounters between Jews and Jesuits / edited by James Bernauer, Robert A. Maryks. pages cm. -- (Studies in the history of Christian traditions, ISSN 1573-5664 ; volume 169) Includes index. This volume had its origin at a conference that was held at Boston College in July 2012. ISBN 978-90-04-26021-4 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-26037-5 (e-book) 1. Catholic Church--Relations--Judaism--History--Congresses. 2. Judaism--Relations--Catholic Church-- History--Congresses. 3. Jesuits--Congresses. I. Bernauer, James William, editor of compilation. II. Maryks, Robert A., editor of compilation. BM535.T635 2013 261.2’609--dc23 2013035272 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 1573-5664 ISBN 978-90-04-26021-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-26037-5 (e-book) Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. <UN> <UN> CONTENTS Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................ix List of Illustrations ...................................................................................................xi List of Contributors ............................................................................................... xiii Introduction ................................................................................................................1 James Bernauer and Robert A. Maryks part one JESUITS AND NEW CHRISTIANS 1. The Watershed of Conversion: Antonio Possevino, New Christians, and Jews ................................................................................ 25 Emanuele Colombo 2. Negotiating Relationship: Jesuits and Portuguese Conversos— A Reassessment Claude B. Stuczynski .................................................................................... 43 part two JESUITS, JEWS, AND MODERNITY 3. Polemics of Confessionalization: Depictions of Jews and Jesuits in Early Modern Germany ........................................................ 65 Dean Phillip Bell 4. The Suppression of the Jesuits and the Enlightenment Discourse of Jewish Emancipation: Two Parallel Historical Phenomena ........................................................................................................ 87 Diego Lucci 5. Jesuit Influence on Italian Jewish Culture in the 16th and 17th Centuries .........................................................................................103 Gianfranco Miletto 6. From Kaifeng to Shanghai via Rome and Paris: Jesuits and the History of Judaism in China .................................................................125 Jeremy Clarke <UN> <UN> vi contents part three HATEFUL VISIONS 7. Visions of Hate: Jews and Jesuits in the European Feuilleton ..........147 Lou Charnon-Deutsch 8. Jesuits, Jews, and Communists: Portrayals of Jesuits and Other Catholic Religious in Nazi Newspapers during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39 .......................................................................161 Beth Griech-Polelle part four IN THE SHADOW OF 20TH-CENTURY CATASTROPHE A. French Conflicts 9. French Jesuits and Action Française .......................................................183 Peter J. Bernardi 10. A Jesuit Spiritual Insurrection: Resistance to Vichy ............................203 James Bernauer B. Italian Struggles 11. The Anti-Semitism of La Civiltà Cattolica Revisited ...........................219 David Lebovitch Dahl 12. Transforming Anti-Semitism: The Civiltà Cattolica after the Shoah, 1945–65 .....................................................................................233 Elena Mazzini 13. Vatican Radio and Anti-Semitism during the Second World War .......................................................................................................247 Raffaella Perin 14. Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Mussolini, Pius XI, and the Jews .....................265 David I. Kertzer 15. The Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi and the Rescue of Italian Jews .....................................................................................................275 Robert A. Maryks C. American Contrasts 16. “Correct and Christian”: American Jesuit Support of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s Anti-Semitism, 1935–38 ......................297 Charles Gallagher <UN> <UN> contents vii 17. “Accepted and Welcome”: The Unlikely Response of the Jesuits at Marquette University to Jewish Applicants during the Interwar Years, 1920–40 .....................................................................317 Michael J. Burns Epilogue 18. Joseph Bonsirven, SJ: A Pioneer of a Theologian of Judaism before Vatican II ...........................................................................333 Thérèse Andrevon Index .........................................................................................................................351 <UN> <UN> <UN> <UN> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our volume had its origin at a conference that was held at Boston College in July, 2012. Its many participants came from Asia, Europe, Israel and America for a week of scholarly discussions and friendly exchange. We, the editors of the volume, have many people to thank for the success of the conference. First our Administration and colleagues at Boston College who encouraged us and in particular Professor David Quigley, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who opened the conference. We want to express our gratitude for the support we received from the Kraft Family Professorship, the Corcoran Visiting Professorship and the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College which hosted our discus- sions. In particular, we wish to thank the Center’s Associate Director for programs, Dr. Camille Fitzpatrick Markey, who supervised the planning and management of the numerous details involved with such a meeting. We are pleased to acknowledge our debt to others at the Center who were engaged in the conference: the Associate Director, Professor Ruth Langer of the Boston College Theology Department; Felix Jimenez, of the Boston College History Department who is the Assistant to the Kraft Family Professorship, and Joshua Rosenfeld. We are grateful to the Chairs of the conference’s various sessions: Dr. Marian St. Onge, Prof. Thomas Worcester, S.J. of the College of the Holy Cross, Prof. Luis David, S.J. of the Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines, Prof. Serena Parekh of Northeastern University, and Prof. Edward McGushin of Stonehill College. During the month of July, 2012, the Department of Special Collections in the Burns Library at Boston College mounted an exhibit of historic texts associated with the themes of the conference and we especially thank three of its staff: Robert O’Neill, Shelley Barber, and Barbara Adams Hebard as well as her Boston College student assistants, Robert Williams and Nora Devlin. Sara Tropper helped us in editing the contributions. We were very pleased that Brill Academic Publishers was interested in bringing out our selection of papers from the conference and we wish to acknowledge some of its staff here: Robert J. Bast, Arjan van Dijk, Ivo Romein, Saskia van der Knaap, along with copy-editor Tim Page. James Bernauer, S.J. Robert A. Maryks <UN> <UN> <UN> <UN> LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Book cover: Cardinal Augustin Bea S.J. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Courtesy of the American Jewish Archives (Marc Tanenbaum Collection). 1. Vita Beati P. Ignatii Loiolae Societatis Iesu Fundatoris by Peter-Paul Rubens (?) .......................................................................................4 2. De vita Iacobi Laynis by Pedro de Ribadeneyra .........................................7 3. Della religione del principe christiano by Pedro de Ribadeneyra ..........8 4. Bibliotheca Selecta by Antonio Possevino ������������������������������������������������ 26 5. Musurgia Universalis by Athanasius Kircher ........................................119 6. Musurgia Universalis
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