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countenance to the calum-
ny. Immediately the Holy
See first became cognizant
of it, in the thirteenth cen-
tury, its remonstrances
began: and they continued
afterward in unbroken
sequence.
"It is noteworthy that
some of the most vehement
protests emanated from
the pontiffs who otherwise
shewed themselves least
sympathetic toward the
Jews, their objectivity thus
being all the more obvious.
Never was the libel raised
under official auspices in
the states of the Church —
a statement applicable to
few other parts of Europe.
On almost every occasion,
the papacy resolutely
refused to set the seal of of-
ficial approval upon the
beatification of sup-
positious victims demand-
ed by the ignorant.
"In no respect does the
policy of the Holy See
toward the Jew, essentially
humane according to the
standard of the age even
when it could not be
benevolent, appear in a
nobler light:'
The mass of evidence ac-
cumulated in this very im-
portant volume fully
justifies Dr. Roth's conten-
tion. The only serious ob-
jection that can possibly be
taken to it by Jewish
readers is the regrettable
fact that the Catholic
Church itself and the
Catholic lay and clerical
leaders failed to produce
this evidence and to make
it a matter of record and
public knowledge during
the centuries that interven-
ed from the time when
Pope Innocent IV, in the
13th century, established a
precedent for Catholic con-
demnation of this
atrocious lie.
Even the least informed
person can readily see
what horrors and
tragedies could have been
avoided had the Catholic
Church come to the front
as the defender of truth by
publishing the various
documents on record and
by making its condem-
nation of the calumny a
matter of general
knowledge.
There is a tragic note in
Dr. Roth's volume which
proves the irony of at-
tempts by Jews to disprove
this libel when it should be
done by non-Jews who are
responsible for spreading
it. Dr. Roth reproduces in
his book part of the record
of the Mendel Bellis Case
which was tried in Kiev,
Russia, in 1913.
The defense presented
documents to show that
various Popes, including
Cardinal Ganganelli,
issued encyclicals showing
how baseless the charge is.
The prosecution denied
the authenticity of these
encyclicals and even chose
to call them forgeries.
Lord Rothschild of Lon-
don thereupon, on Oct. 7,
1913, wrote to His
Eminence Raphael, Car-
dinal Palatine Merry del
Val, Pontifical Secretary of
State, who replied on Oct.
18, 1913, stating that the en-
cyclicals are "substantially
authentic?'
"The Rutial Murder
Libel and the Jew,"
although containing a total
of only 100 pages, is pack-
ed full of very important
data dealing with the ritual
murder charge. It dates
back to the first libel made
against the Jews in 1144
when William of Norwich,
who died of a cateleptic fit,
was later martyrized as a
victim of the Jews and his
name repeatedly invoked
thereafter for the revival of
the ritual murder libel.
Dr. Roth reviews the
various instances of ritual
murder lies against the
Jews leading up the latest
demonstrations of imbecili-
ty in the spread of this
calumny by Julius
Streicher in the official
Nazi organ of Nuremburg,
Der Stuermer. He shows
how this charge was made
against the early Chris-
tians and not so long ago
against Catholic mis-
sionaries in China, Japan,
and the monks of Mt. Sinai,
leading up to a resume of
sad experiences of the
Jews of Poland.
Dr. Roth describes the
circumstances under
which in 1758 the Jewish
communities of Poland
took steps to defend
themselves by sending
Jacob Selig (Selik) as an
emissary to Rome to solicit
protection. Pope Benedict
XIV referred the applica-
tion to the Holy Office of
the Inquisition and Car-
dinal Ganganelli was
selected to report on the
truth or falsehood of the
charges made against the
Jewish people.
Ganganelli's encyclical is
a most effective piece of
writing. Dr. Roth rightfully
states that "underlying the
document there is a gentle
humor; and the demolition
of certain arguments
brought forward to bolster
up the libel is a model of
ecclesiastical sarcasm:'
What makes Ganganelli's