The Tragic Couple: Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits: Vol 169

The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has become a leader in the dialogue between Jews and Catholics as was manifested in the role that the Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea played in the adoption by the Second Vatican Council of Nostra Aetate, the charter for that new relationship. Still the encounters between Jesuits and Jews were often characterized by animosity and this historical record made them a tragic couple, related but estranged. This volume is the first examination of the complex interactions between Jesuits and Jews from the early modern period in Europe and Asia through the twentieth century where special attention is focused on the historical context of the Holocaust.

James W. Bernauer, Ph.D. (1981) in Philosophy , S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook is the Kraft Family Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston College where he is also Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. He has published extensively on the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, including Amor mundi: explorations in the faith and thought of Hannah Arendt (Martinus Nijhoff, 1987) and Michel Foucault's force of flight: toward an ethics for thought (HPI, 1990).

Robert A. Maryks, Ph.D. (2006) in History, Fordham University, is Associate Professor at CUNY and Visiting Scholar at the Jesuit Institute of Boston College. He has published on various aspects of the history of the Jesuits, including Saint Cicero and the Jesuits (Ashgate, 2008), The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2009), and Pouring Jewish Water into Fascist Wine (Brill, 2011). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Jesuit Studies and Brill's book series of Jesuit Studies.