Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-344) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Keeping Jews in their place -- 1. A missed opportunity -- 2. Forced baptism -- 3. The ghetto -- 4. Ritual murder makes a comeback -- 5. The end of an era -- pt. 2. The Church and the rise of modern anti-semitism -- 6. The Catholic press -- 7. Jewish vampires -- 8. France -- 9. Austria -- 10. Race -- 11. Ritual murder and the Popes in the twentieth century -- pt. 3. On the eve of the Holocaust -- 12. A future Pope in Poland -- 13. Antechamber to the Holocaust.