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The ‘New Nazis’ or the ‘People of our God’? Jews and Zionism in the Latin Church of Jerusalem, 1948–1962

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2017

MARIA CHIARA RIOLI
MARIA CHIARA RIOLI*
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Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée/Sangalli Institute, Piazza Cittadella 7, 41100 Modena, Italy; E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In the aftermath of the Holocaust the elaboration of Catholic perceptions of the Jewish people has been particularly problematic. The weight of a long tradition of Christian antisemitism and its influence on the Nazi extermination programme, as well as the revision of this attitude before and after the Shoah in various Catholic circles as a means of promoting a rapprochement, made it difficult to redefine the image of Jewish people in the Catholic imagination, and gave rise to different and conflicting interpretations. Some members of the Latin Catholic Church of Jerusalem began to argue for an analogy between Nazism and Zionism. This assertion took different forms as the political situation in Palestine evolved and in response to changing attitudes within the Church towards the Jews. This paper will reconstruct the ‘new Nazis’ paradigm in the Jerusalem Church, analysing three key periods: the 1947–9 Arab-Israeli war; the consolidation of the State of Israel in the 1950s; and the Eichmann trial of 1961–2.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 81 - 107
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20 ‘Nos chambres ont été pillées. Les archives du bureau du père supérieur ont été saccagées, dispersées, détruites. Le coffre-fort a été ouvert et vidé … La sacristie a été aussi visitée, les tiroirs et les armoires ont été vidés du linge et de divers objets consacrés au culte. Ici, au vol s'ajoute la profanation qui nous est encore plus sensible que le vol’: report, ‘Occupation et siège de l'Hôtellerie de Notre-Dame de France en Mai et Juin 1948’, Fr Pascal Saint-Jean to the Jewish authorities in Jerusalem, 11 June 1948, NDFA, serie 4: rapports avec les autorités militaires, file ‘Correspondance avec les autorités militaires israéliennes’, 1947–8.

21 Ibid.

22 Fr Saint-Jean to Bernard Joseph, military governor of Jerusalem, copy, Jerusalem, 5 Dec. 1948, ibid.

23 Fr Albino Gorla to Y. Herzog, Eugène Tisserant and Gustavo Testa, Deir Rafat, 12 Dec. 1948, ISA, 5805/7–ג, ISA, 5805/7–ג, letter no. 45.

24 Ibid.

25 Fr Patrick J. Coyle and Fr Theophane Carrell ‘to all concerned’, copy, Jerusalem, 30 Sept. 1948, NDFA, serie 4: rapports avec les autorités militaires, file ‘Correspondance avec les autorités militaires israéliennes’, 1947–8.

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27 In 1949, after a conversation with Mgr Domenico Tardini, the Italian ambassador at the Holy See, Antonio Meli Lupi di Soragna wrote that ‘gli Israeliani stanno applicando agli Arabi buona parte dei sistemi che i nazisti applicavano a loro stessi’, adding that ‘Israele, dice Tardini, conduce una lotta accanita contro il cattolicismo’: quoted in Riccardi, Luca, Il «problema Israele»: diplomazia italiana e PCI di fronte allo Stato ebraico [1948–1973], Milan 2006, 38 Google Scholar.

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36 ‘Ces arguments [those expressed by Abba Eban] s'appuient sur une mentalité de colonialisme bourgeois qui ne trouve plus guère d’écho que dans le chauvinisme impénitent du militarisme nord-africain de chez nous et dans l'afrikandérisme de M. Malan’: Louis Massignon, ‘Le Problème des réfugiés arabes de Palestine’, Opera minora, iii/3, 526.

37 In Hebrew, ‘stranger’.

38 In Hebrew, ‘diaspora’.

39 Massignon, ‘Le Problème des réfugiés arabes’, 526.

40 Lettera circolare n. 11 del custode Alberto Gori, Jerusalem, 12 May 1949, AGCOFMR, Segreteria Generale, Custodia di Terra Santa, box SK 762.

41 In the text, the author stated that Zionism ‘qu'il soit d'inspiration spiritualiste et constitue la revanche d'il y a deux mille ans contre le christianisme: qu'il soit athée et matérialiste, et devienne le fourrier du communisme en Moyen Orient: le sionisme ne saurait tolérer sous quelque forme que ce soit, l'expression de la doctrine du Christ sur “sa” terre … Les purs orthodoxes dévoilent jours après jours leur ambitions … Leur position politique donne l'auréole du martyre aux terroristes, dont beaucoup se recrutent parmi eux’. The bulletin, dated 7 May 1949, was republished in Documentation Catholique xlvi (1949), 645–8. It is now available in Gerusalemme nei documenti pontifici, ed. Farhat, E., Vatican City 1987, 307–9Google Scholar.

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45 About the war and the refugee issue, the author stated that ‘Les Juifs sont venus, ont vidé les maisons, puis y ont installé les leurs. Il y a eu, en très petit nombre, des Arabes chrétiens, qui sont restés chez eux; les hommes en état de porter les armes, ont été envoyés dans des camps de concentration; (plusieurs ont été relâchés depuis) tous ont été contraints d'abandonner leur demeure, d'où on ne leur a laissé emporter que très peu de chose, ils ont été relégués dans des maisons abandonnées et pillées; là, ils vivent dans une sort de “ghetto” entouré de barbelés et ils ne peuvent en sortir que munis d'autorisations difficilement accordées’: ibid. 312.

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47 Marlin Moshe Levin, ‘Israel and the Churches’, Palestine Post, 26 July 1949.

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59 Ibid.

60 ‘Los jueces de Israel’, ibid. 34.

61 Ibid.

62 Ibid. 35.

63 Ibid.

64 Ibid. 36.

65 This group, mainly composed of Jewish converts to Christianity, was established in 1954 within the Latin Patriarchate with a specific commitment to pastoral work in and towards the Jewish world in Israel. This organisation has a particular importance and interest: on the one hand, it evoked and embodied the long, complex and dramatic history of relations between Jews and Christians, but with a completely new attitude toward the Jewish state. On the other hand, new and unusual traits and features characterised the St James Association, clearly distinguishing it from a centuries-old tradition of Christian speech, practices, violence and topoi directed to the conversion of the ‘Jewish race’ to Christianity. See Delmaire, Danielle, ‘La Communauté catholique d'expression hébraïque en Israël: shoah, judaïsme et christianisme’, Revue d'histoire de la Shoah cxcii (2010), 237–87Google Scholar, and Rioli, Maria Chiara, ‘L'Opera San Giacomo: una Chiesa ebraica nello stato d'Israele’, Materia Giudaica xix (2014), 247–65Google Scholar.

66 Br Yochanan Elichai to Gori, Ramat-Gan, 8 Sept. 1961, LPJA, Opera S. Giacomo.

67 Ibid.

68 Ibid.

69 Gori wrote that ‘l'attitude à tenir par le Clergé à propos de certaines douloureuses questions est le silence’: Gori to Elichai, prot. 965/61, Jerusalem, 17 Sept. 1961, LPJA, Opera S. Giacomo.

70 In a letter addressed to the Patriarch by Fr Alfred Delmée (1925–85), the Polish priest responsible for the St James Association community of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, he inquired about the events: ‘l'essentiel des articles semble se résumer à ceci: il ne faut pas juger l'antisémitisme sans en décrire les causes. Or les auteurs se gardent soigneusement de définir les sources de l'antisémitisme. Quelles sont donc ces racines de l'antisémitisme que l'on a oublié de signaler en Israël? Je crains qu'il ne s'agisse dans l'esprit des auteurs de théories prêchées jadis par certains régimes totalitaires et utilisées par les antisémites pour se justifier. Peut-être faut-il reconnaître parmi divers causes de l'antisémitisme, un manque d'amour, assez déconcertant des chrétiens pour le peuple de leur Seigneur’: Fr Alfred Delmée to Gori, Jaffa, 10 Sept. 1961, SJAA.

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75 The relevance of the tiny experience of the St James Association in a cultural milieu that supported philo-semitism at the Council confirms John Connelly's thesis on the central importance and role of ‘bridges’ between communities provided by Jewish converts to Christianity in the Jewish-Catholic dialogue: From enemy to brother, 63–4.