The Hidden Encyclical Of Pius XI (Translated from the French By Steven Randall)

The complete text of an encyclical--written in 1938 and discovered in the late 1960s--denoucing racism and anti-Semitism, drafted by Father John Lafarge and two other priests, called Humani Generis Unitas (The Unity of the Human Race), is accompanied by the commentary of two distinguished European historians.

Georges Passelecq, a Benedictine monk, was a member of the Belgian Resistance in World War II.

Bernard Suchecky recieved his Doctorate in history from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Suchecky is also a specialist in the Yiddish world and the history of Jewish populations in Central and Eastern Europe of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is a researcher at the Graduate Institute for the Study of Judaism at the Free University of Brussels and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New Yor. He was curator, head of archives at the Jewish Museum of Belgium (Brussels).