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Relations with the Jews
- Bayfield, Tony; Brichto, Sidney; and Fisher, Eugene, editors, He Kissed Him and They Wept: Towards a Theology of Jewish-Catholic Partnership (London: SCM Press, 2001). Papers from an international theological conference co-sponsored by the World Union of Progressive Judaism and the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.
- Bernardin, Joseph, A Blessing to Each Other: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1996). Addresses and reflections of the late Cardinal on the dialogue.
- Borowsky, Irvin, editor, Defining New Christian/Jewish Dialogue (New York: Crossroad, 2004). Essays by leading Christian thinkers.
- Cassidy, Edward Idris Cardinal, Ecumenicsm and Interreligious Dialogue: Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate (New York: Paulist Press, 2005). Reflections of a former President of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.
- Croner, Helga, editor, Stepping Stones to Further Jewish Christian Relations (Stimulus Books, 1977); More Stepping Stones (New York: Paulist Press, 1985). These two volumes contain the statements of Protestant and Catholic Church bodies on Christian-Jewish relations.
- Fisher, Eugene J. and Klenicki, Leon, In Our Time: The Flowering of Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (Paulist/Stimulus, 1990). Key documents and commentary of the dialogue. Fifty-page annotated bibliography-essay on the literature in the field.
- Fisher, Eugene J. and Klenicki, Leon, editors, Spiritual Pilgrimage: Pope John Paul II, Texts on Jews and Judaism 1979 - 1995 (New York: Crossroad, 1995). The pope's statements, with introduction and thematic commentary by the editors.
- Fisher, Eugene J. and Rudin, James, editors, Twenty Years of Jewish-Catholic Relations (Paulist, 1986). Essays by leading figures in the American dialogue since Vatican II on the Council, liturgy, Israel, education, and the Shoah.
- Fry, Helen P., Christian-Jewish Dialogue, A Reader (University of Exeter, 1996). Selections from Jewish and Christian writers on the key issues of the dialogue.
- International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee. Fifteen Years of Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, 1970-1985 (Rome: Libreria Editrice Lateranense and Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1988).
- Kessler, Edward, and Wenborn, Neil, editors, A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2005). An invaluable research tool.
- Novak, David, Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003). One of the leading Conservative Jewish thinkers collects here essays on Jewish-Christian relations.
- The Theology of the Churches and the Jewish People: Statements of the World Council of Churches and Its Member Churches. (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1988), with commentaries by Alan Brockway, Paul van Buren Rolf Rentdorff, and Simon Schoon.
- Willebrands, Cardinal Johannes. Church and Jewish People: New considerations (New York: Paulist Press, 1992). Collects the texts and addresses of the head of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews from 1974 to 1990.
- Wolf, Alfred and Vadakin, Royale, editors, A Journey of Discovery: A Resource Manual for Jewish-Catholic Dialogue (Valencia, CA: Tabor Publications, 1989). Handy, loose-leaf format includes joint statements and resources developed by the Los Angeles Respect Life, Priest/Rabbi, and Women's Dialogue groups over the course of two decades. A valuable resource
- Wyschogrod, Michael, Abraham’s Promise: Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004). R. Kendall Soulen has collected the papers of Orthodox Jewish philosopher-theologian, which provide stimulating challenges to Jews and Christians alike.
- Bemporad, Jack, and Shevack, Michael, Our Age: The Historic New Era of Christian-Jewish Understanding (New City Press, 1996). Concise, readable summary and analysis of Catholic statements and documents by two rabbis beginning with the Second Vatican Council. Foreword by John Cardinal O'Connor.
- Boys, Mary C., Has God Only One Blessing? Judaism as a Source of Christian Self-Understanding, (New York: Paulist Stimulus, 2000).
- Boys, Mary C., editor, Seeing Judaism Anew: Christianity’s Sacred Obligation (Lanham, MD: 2005). Essays by twenty-one leading Protestant and Catholic scholars.
- Bruteau, Beatrice, Jesus Through Jewish Eyes: Rabbis and Scholars Engage an Ancient Brother in a New Conversation. (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2001).
- Catholic Truth Society, Catholic-Jewish Relations: Documents from the Holy See (Washington: USCC Publications, 1999). Contains the text of Nostra Aetate and the three implementing documents of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (1974, 1985, 1998), in effect "the entire corpus of universal Roman Catholic teaching on Jews and Judaism since the close of the apostolic period," as Eugene Fisher states in his introduction. Bibliography.
- Cernera, Anthony J., editor, Toward Greater Understanding: Essays in Honor of John Cardinal O'Connor (Fairfield, CT: Sacred Heart University, 1995). Includes essays by Cardinals Bernardin, Cassidy, Keeler, and Law; by Rabbis Jack Bemporad, David Novak, Mordecai Waxman, and Walter Wurtzburger; and by Elie Wiesel.
- Frymer-Kensky, Tikva, et al., Christianity in Jewish Terms (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000). Fourteen essays by Jewish scholars, with Christian responses.
- Greenberg, Irving, For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2004). One of the leading Orthodox Jewish thinkers of our time collects his major papers on the relationship over the years, adding groundbreaking new reflections on our “covenants of redemption.”
- Sandmel, David, Catalano, Rosann, and Leighton, Christopher, editors, Irreconcilable Differences? A Learning Resource for Jews and Christians (Boulder, CO, 2001)
- Boys, Mary C. and Lee, Sara S., Christians and Jews in Dialogue: Learning in the Presence of the Other (Woodstock, VT: Skylight Paths, 2006).
- Cunningham, Philip, Education for Shalom: Religion Textbooks and the Enhancement of the Catholic and Jewish Relationship (Philadelphia: The American Interfaith Institute, 1995).
- Fisher, Eugene J., Faith Without Prejudice (Second edition. New York: Crossroad, 1993). A general introduction to the issues, with activities for parishes and schools and a selection of key Catholic documents.
- Flannery, Edward J., The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism (Paulist, 1985). An historical survey of Christian Antisemitism by a Catholic author. Gager, John G. The Origins of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press, 1983). Study of Patristic literature.
- O’Hare, Padraic, The Enduring Covenant: The Education of Christians and the End of Anti-Semitism (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997)
- Pawlikowski, John, and Wilde, James, When Catholics Speak About Jews (Chicago: Liturgy Training Program, 1987). Identifies difficulties in the lectionary and offers practical advice on how preachers can proclaim the gospel free of a negative portrait of Jews and Judaism.
- Salmon, Marilyn, Preaching Without Contempt: Overcoming Unintended Anti-Judaism. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006).
- Sanders, Theresa, Tenebrae: Holy Week After the Holocaust. (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2006).
- Aumann, Moshe, Conflict & Connection: The Jewish-Christian-Israel Triangle (Jerusalem: Gefen, 2003). An Israeli diplomat describes the historic background and analyzes the “sea change” in Christian attitudes toward Israel as reflected in recent documents of the churches.
- Flannery, Edward J., The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism (Paulist, 1985). An historical survey of Christian Antisemitism by a Catholic author. Gager, John G. The Origins of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press, 1983). Study of Patristic literature.
- Fisher, Eugene J., editor, Interwoven Destinies (New York: Paulist Press, 1993) and Visions of the Other (New York: Paulist Press, 1994). Six Christian and six Jewish scholars are paired in looking at the history and contemporary possibilities of two millennia of Jewish-Christian interrelations.
- Hertzberg, Arthur. The French Enlightenment and the Jews (New York: Columbia University). New classic text revealing that in some ways the "enlightened" thinkers held darker and more racist views of Jews and Judaism than their medieval or Reformation predecessors.
- Oberman, Heiko, The Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984). Erasmus, Reuchlin, Pfefferkorn, Calvin, Luther and others.
- Saperstein, Marc, Moments of Crisis in Jewish-Christian Relations (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1989). Concise survey of the history of Jews and Christians in antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and during the Holocaust.
- Synan, Edward A., The Popes and the Jews in the Middle Ages (New York: Macmillan, 1965). Relevant Church texts and their historical contexts.
- Wilken, Robert L., John Chrysostom and The Jews: Rhetoric and Reality in the Late Fourth Century (Berkeley, 1983).
- Berger, Alan; Cargas, Harry J., and Nowak, Susan, editors, The Continuing Agony: From the Carmelite Convent to the Crosses at Auschwitz (Binghamton University: Global Publications, 2002).
- Bottum, Joseph, The Pius War: Responses to Critics of Pius XII (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004). Note especially the “Annotated Bibliography” by William Doino, Jr (pp. 97-280).
- Catholics Remember the Holocaust, Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, USCCB, 1998. Publication no. 5-290. Documents of the Holy See and Bishops’ Conferences.
- Catholic Teaching on the Shoah: Implementing the Holy See's We Remember, Bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, 2001. USCCB Publication no. 5-406.
- Dulles, Avery Cardinal, and Rabbi Leon Klenicki, The Holocaust: Never to Be Forgotten: Reflections on the Holy See’s We Remember (New York: Paulist Stimulus, 2001).
- Fisher, Eugene J. and Klenicki, Leon, From Desolation to Hope: An Interreligious Holocaust Memorial Service (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1990).
- Jacobs, Steven J. editor, The Holocaust Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought (East Rockaway, NY: Cummings & Hathaway, 1996). 22 scholars reflect on the Shoah and its implications for Jewish and Christian theology.
- Littell, Marcia and Gutman, Sharon, editors, Liturgies on the Holocaust: An Interfaith Anthology (Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1996).
- Sanchez, Jose, Pius XII: Understanding the Controversy (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2002). A meticulous and balanced survey of the major issues, presenting both sides before coming to the author’s own conclusion.
- The Bible, the Jews and the Death of Jesus: A Collection of Catholic Documents, Bishops’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, USCCB, 2004. Publication no. 5-618.
- Criteria for the Evaluation of Dramatizations of the Passion, Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Washington, DC 1988. USCCB Publication no. 211-x
- Efroymson, David, Fisher, Eugene J., and Klenicki, Leon, editors, Within Context: Essays On Jews and Judaism in the New Testament (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1993). Roman Catholic scholars provide background on the New Testament with sensitivity to its Jewish milieu.
- Flannery, Edward J., The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism (Paulist, 1985). An historical survey of Christian Antisemitism by a Catholic author. Gager, John G. The Origins of Anti-Semitism (Oxford University Press, 1983). Study of Patristic literature.
- Gerard S. Sloyan, Jesus on Trial: A Study of the Gospels, 2nd edition, (Minneapolis: Fortress press, 2006). Spiro, J. and Hirsch, H., editors, Persistent Prejudice (George Mason University Press, 1988). Essays on the history of antisemitism.
- Levine, Amy-Jill, The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. (San Francisco: Harper Press, 2007)
- God’s Mercy Endures Forever: Guidelines on the Presentation of Jews and Judaism in Catholic Preaching, Bishops’ Committee for the Liturgy, 1998. USCCB Publication no. 247-0.
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