Reviews for The Popes Against the Jews
"Important....Fascinating....[A] riveting piece of historical detective work."
-The New York Times
"Scrupulous....Significant and compelling."
-The Washington Post
"The material is dynamite."
-The Times [London]
"Riveting."
-The Toronto Globe and Mail
"The Popes Against the Jews...demolishes the findings of 'We Remember'."
-The Boston Globe
"This reviewer is grateful to Kertzer for having written such a compelling narrative. His thesis is shocking and disturbing....An important book."
-The Irish Times
"Kertzer [has the] extraordinary ability to present the most painful, religiously radioactive material with a coolness that makes his findings...devastating....Its superb, meticulous scholarship is a benchmark by which other books on the subject must now be judged."
-The Forward
"[A] profoundly well-documented book....It is a work of brilliant narrative quality, an oppressive, unremitting and enraging report on what may be the most lethal period of official and quasi-official Catholic anti-Semitism."
-Providence Journal
"Important.... [Kertzer] challenges much of the received wisdom about the Holy See's role in the evolution of modern anti-Semitism.... Commands serious attention."
- The New Leader
"A powerful and shocking book."
- Times Literary Supplement
"Finely written.... Kertzer's book is valuable. It shows the extent to which anti-Semitic fanatics were tolerated in the Catholicism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It makes a case that calls for an answer."
- The New York Review of Books
"Brilliant.... Wonderfully written and jarring, it reads like a terrifying novel"
- Choice
"Kertzer's bill of indictment is a formidable one—a reminder of what a mighty institution may choose to overlook when sitting in judgrnent on itself."
- The Economist
"For any Catholic, the book makes profoundly uncomfortable and shameful reading.... As a contribution to the rapprochement between Catholicism and Judaism, [The Popes Against the Jews] has an. important role to play."
- The Independent