{"id":543,"date":"2013-04-18T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umnchgs.wordpress.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2013-04-18T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:18:31","slug":"book-of-the-month-pius-xii-and-the-holocaust-current-state-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/book-of-the-month-pius-xii-and-the-holocaust-current-state-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Month: Pius XII and the Holocaust: Current State of Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pius-Holocaust-Current-State-Research\/dp\/9653083678\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pius XII and the Holocaust:\u00a0Current State of Research<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edited by David Bankier (Author) Iael Nidam-Orvieto (Editor), Dan Michman (Editor).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-544 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/81.jpg\" alt=\"81.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/81.jpg 249w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/81-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>Dilemmas, silence, active rescue, and passivity are words often associated with Pius XII. &#8220;Critics&#8221; emphasize the wartime Pope&#8217;s failure to condemn Nazism, while &#8220;defenders&#8221; maintain that Vatican neutrality facilitated rescue activities by the faithful. This publication, which consists of the oral presentations of scholars gathered at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/\">Yad Vashem<\/a>\u00a0(Israel`s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust) for a groundbreaking international workshop, attempts to present the current state of research on Pius XII and the Holocaust, based on new documentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pius XII and the Holocaust:\u00a0Current State of Research\u00a0 Edited by David Bankier (Author) Iael Nidam-Orvieto (Editor), Dan Michman (Editor). Dilemmas, silence, active rescue, and passivity are words often associated with Pius XII. &#8220;Critics&#8221; emphasize the wartime Pope&#8217;s failure to condemn Nazism, while &#8220;defenders&#8221; maintain that Vatican neutrality facilitated rescue activities by the faithful. This publication, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96689],"tags":[58539,59303,67728,84862],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-filmbook","tag-dan-michman","tag-david-bankier","tag-iael-nidam-orvieto","tag-the-holocaust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}