Title: Untruthful
Product review: The book claims to be a history of the relationship between Catholics and Jews, but it doesn't meet the first criteria of serious historical work. It does not use primary sources. Rather, it uses secondary sources often drawn from anti-Catholic journalists. As a professional historian of the Middle Ages, I was appalled at how Carroll systematically ignores or explains away the many clear condemndations of anti-Semitism by popes, councils, and theologians. It is astonishing to read his criticism of Pius XI with no reference at all to his anti-Nazi and vigorously pro-Semitic encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge and numerous other solemn condemnations of anti-Semitism.This is not history. It is pure anti-Catholic fantasy for the lesiured classes.
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