The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews : contexts, sources and perspectives / / edited by Stephan Wendehorst.

• Superior document: Studies in European Judaism, v. 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Wendehorst, Stephan.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in European Judaism ; v. 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Notes: Papers presented at three conferences in Leipzig on June 29-July [1?], 2001, July 5-6, 2002, and October 23-24, 2002.

Drawing on ongoing research in the archive of the former Roman Inquisition, this volume presents new perspectives for research on the relations between the Catholic Church, Jews and Judaism and places them within the context of the extant scholarship on papal policy, censorship and the Marrano milieu.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; I CONTEXTS; The Fruit of Ambivalence. Papal Jewry Policies Over the Centuries (Kenneth Stow); Cardinal Santoro and the Expurgation of Hebrew Literature Piet (W. van Boxel); The Censor as a Mediator: Printing, Censorship and the Shaping of Hebrew Literature (Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin); The Catholic Church and Jewish Books in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth From the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century (Hanna Wegrzynek); Inquisition, Theology and the Realism of La Lozana Andaluza (Eleazar Gutwirth)

Tortured Memories. Jacob Rosales alias Imanuel Bocarro Francês: A Life from the Files of the Inquisition (Michael Studemund-Halévy and Sandra Neves Silva)II SOURCES; The Archive of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (ACDF): An Initial Overview of its Holdings and Scholarship to Date (Claus Arnold); The Series ""Stanza Storica"" of the Sanctum Officium in the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as a Source for the History of the Jews (Antje Bräcker); Jews and Judaizers in the Dispersed Archives of the Roman Inquisition (John Tedeschi); III PERSPECTIVES

The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews: New Perspectives for Research (Stephan Wendehorst)The Politics of Conversion: Jews and Inquisition Law in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Ariella Lang); The Good Friday Supplication for the Jews and the Roman Curia (1928-1975): A Case Example for Research Prospects for the Twentieth Century (Hubert Wolf); Index of Names; Index of Places; Index of Subjects; Contributors