A Cross Too Heavy: Eugenio Pacelli. Politics and the Jews of Europe 1917–1943, Paul O'Shea (Kenthurst, NSW: Rosenberg Publishing, 2008), 392 pp., pbk., 35.00
In the ongoing discussion of the record of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust, Paul O'Shea sounds a new voice. A historian and educator, he is a founding member of the Australian Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and serves as Senior Religious Education Coordinator at St. Patrick'...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 138-141 |
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| Summary: | In the ongoing discussion of the record of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust, Paul O'Shea sounds a new voice. A historian and educator, he is a founding member of the Australian Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and serves as Senior Religious Education Coordinator at St. Patrick's College in Strathfield, Australia (near Sydney)., O'Shea's volume does not bring forth new scholarly material on Pius XII; the author's most important contribution to scholarship on the subject is the way he frames his discussion of the available documentation. Far too many works on Pius XII focus almost exclusively on his time as pope and examine his record through the lens of the Church's sordid history of antisemitism. O'Shea, on the contrary, works in a wider context. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq013 |