the Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah at the Sala Nervi in Vatican City, along with Pope John Paul II, and the President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. Rabbi Toaff remained friends with John Paul until the pontiff's death, and attended his funeral. He was one of the two people who the pope mentioned in his last will and testament, in which he stated: "How can I fail to remember the rabbi of Rome, and the numerous representatives of non-Christian religions?" The only other living person to be named was John Paul's longtime personal secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz. Bibliography Perfidi giudei, fratelli maggiori, 1987 Essere ebreo with Alain Elkann, 1994 References 1915 births 2015 deaths Christian and Jewish interfaith dialogue 20th-century Italian rabbis Italian Orthodox rabbis Livornese Jews Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Jewish Roman (city) history Rabbis from Rome 20th-century Italian Jews