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Intimate Strangers - A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome (Hardcover)
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Intimate Strangers - A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome (Hardcover)
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The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in
Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous
history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and
annihilations since 139 BCE. For most of that time, Jewish Romans
have lived in close contact with the largest continuously
functioning international organization: the Roman Catholic Church.
Given the church's origins in Judaism, Jews and Catholics have
spent two thousand years negotiating a necessary and paradoxical
relationship. With engaging stories that illuminate the history of
Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers
investigates the unusual relationship between Jews and Catholics as
it has developed from the first century CE to the present in the
Eternal City. Fredric Brandfon innovatively frames these relations
through an anthropological lens: how the idea and language of
family have shaped the self-understanding of both Roman Jews and
Catholics. The familial relations are lopsided, the powerful family
member often persecuting the weaker one; the church ghettoized the
Jews of Rome longer than any other community in Europe. Yet respect
and support are also part of the family dynamic-for instance,
church members and institutions protected Rome's Jews during the
Nazi occupation-and so the relationship continues. Brandfon begins
by examining the Arch of Titus and the Jewish catacombs as
touchstones, painting a picture of a Jewish community remaining
Jewish over centuries. Papal processions and the humiliating races
at Carnival time exemplify Jewish interactions with the predominant
Catholic powers in medieval and Renaissance Rome. The Roman Ghetto,
the forcible conversion of Jews, emancipation from the ghetto in
light of Italian nationalism, the horrors of fascism and the Nazi
occupation in Rome, the Second Vatican Council proclamation
absolving Jews of murdering Christ, and the celebration of Israel's
birth at the Arch of Titus are interwoven with Jewish stories of
daily life through the centuries. Intimate Strangers takes us on a
compelling sweep of two thousand years of history through the
present successes and dilemmas of Roman Jews in postwar Europe.
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