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| | Amazon.com: The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism: Books: David I. Kertzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Popes, for example, confined Jews in the Papal States to live in cramped ghettos without hospitals, denying them the right to work in most occupations--policies which remained in force into the 20th century, despite protests by Jewish leaders and even some Cardinals. |
 | | Indeed, there were Popes sympathetic to the Jews, who discouraged their mistreatment, but ironically, they ruled centuries before 1800; for example, Gregory IX, Innocent IV, Alexander VII, and Clement IV. |
 | | In 1247 for example, Pope Innocent IV issued an encyclical defending Jews from the ridiculous and surreal charge of Blood Libel, noting that Jewish law forbade consumption of blood. |
| www.amazon.com /Popes-Against-Jews-Vaticans-Anti-Semitism/dp/0375406239 (2690 words) |
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