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Gordon Zahn - Book reviews of Vatican Diplomacy and the Jews During the Holocaust by John Morely and of By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi in WORLDVIEW., 1980

 Item — Box: CZHN 4
Identifier: CZHN 4/05156

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  • Creation: 1980

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English.

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Document. Gordon reviews Morely's book as a factual account of the Vatican's relations with countries that came under Nazi rule during WWII. He says that the style basically is an organization of research, but that it is an effective use of understatement and it gets the point across that the church did not act as it could or should have to help save more Jews from extermination. Ezrahi's book is an analysis of literature that deals with the Holocaust, and Gordon says that it suffers from too much abstraction but it is valuable in contributing a fuller awareness of the lessons of the Holocaust. ~ Worldview ~ 25-27 ~ September

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