Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica; Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
58,4 (2002) 234-260; 59,1 (2003) 24-48
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
The letter was conceived and published by the Schweizerisches Evangelisches Hilfswerk für die Bekennende Kirche in Deutschland, at a time when Switzerland was closing its borders to Jews fleeing the Nazis. The signatories, among them Karl Barth, expressed solidarity with the Swiss Jews in their concern for their suffering brethren, contrition for Christian persecution of Jews through the ages - and sorrow for the stubbornness of the Jews who still refuse to recognize Jesus as the Messiah. Most of the mainstream of the Evangelical Church refused to sign, and most of the Church's journals were critical. Reasons ranged from the "tactlessness" of calling on Jews to convert at their time of crisis to rejection of any apology to the Jews or solidarity with them.
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