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Book Review
Canada and the United States
Egal Feldman. Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 323. $34.95.
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The remarkable twentieth-century transformation of Catholic-Jewish relations in the United States deserves far more attention than it has received. During the 1930s, Father Charles Coughlin spewed antisemitic hatred over the nation's airwaves, Catholics assaulted Jews on the streets of Boston and other cities, and a Catholic prelate, John F. X. Murphy, could publish in a respected Catholic journal an article entitled "The Problem of International Judaism." Fifty years later, American Catholic textbooks have largely been purged of anti-Jewish sentiments, Catholics dialogue with Jews in cities across the nation, and both the Holocaust and the State of Israel constitute subjects of serious Catholic reflection. |
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