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Scholars probe the Vatican archives.
New York
.
team of Jewish and Catholic
scholars says it has made "sub-
stantial progress" in examining
published Vatican documents relating
to the Holocaust. -
The team also renewed a call for
the Vatican to open its unpublished
wartime archives to outside
researchers.
"We remain committed to full open-
ness in the examination of the archival
record," the International Catholic-
Jewish Historical Commission said in a
statement after its four-day meeting last
week in London.
The commission, which has met
once before, includes three Jewish and
three Catholic scholars and was joint-
ly established last fall by the Vatican
and the International Jewish
Committee for Interreligious
Consultations.
Its mandate was to review the 11
volumes of World War II archives
published by the Vatican between
1965 and 1981 in order to clarify the
role of the Roman Catholic Church
— and of the wartime pope, Pius XII
— during the Holocaust.
The commission was authorized to
raise questions and issues not resolved
by this published documentation and
to request further clarification that-
could draw on unpublished material
from secret Vatican archives.
Early in their work, all six scholars
concluded that the full Vatican
archives from the period should be
opened. Jewish organizations have
long pressed for this, against deep-
seated Vatican reluctance.
"The commitment to opening the
archives is an overriding objective,"
IJCIC chairman Seymour Reich told
JTA.
Reich said "ambiguities, questions
and gaps" emerged in the initial
review of all 11 published Vatican
volumes.
He did not provide specific exam-
ples, but sources said it appears that
some of the questions relate to the
Vatican's silence in the face of the
Nazi persecution of priests and other
Catholics as well as of Jews.
These issues will be addressed in a
report to be presented at the group's
next meeting, in July in Baltimore.
"We have made substantial
progress," the commission said in last
week's statement. "Collaborating as
Catholic and Jewish scholars on a dif-
ficult and controversial subject, we are
confident that our work will con-
tribute to a deeper understanding of
this painful subject," it said.
_ "We hope that our combined effort
will take the discussion beyond the
realm of heated polemic." ❑
TAKING STOCK from page 27
Sephardim and the Russian immi-
grants, and by taking care never to say
a bad word about his natural oppo-
nents, the Orthodox and the settlers,
Barak has calmed society.
There is less hatred among Israeli
Jews today than there's been in many
years, and Barak's happy-face rhetoric
is a major reason. Another reason, of
course, is that the peace process is
moving forward in increments of mil-
limeters, such that neither the left nor
the right gets its nose put out of joint.
Israel has had a year of relative
calm with Ehud Barak. But high
adventure is at hand. The army's
withdrawal from Lebanon will bring a
dramatic change, for better or worse.
And it will likely be the make-or-
break move of Barak's young career as
prime minister.
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In all, Barak has made hardly any
quantifiable change in the major
dilemmas facing Israel during his first
year as prime minister. The Syrian
track has broken down, the
_ Palestinian track is at near-standstill,
and the economy, while showing signs
of renewed growth, still offers oppor-
tunity only to the educated middle
class who live in the center of the
country.
The one real accomplishment
Barak can point to is unquantifiable,
yet it is felt: the improved social
atmosphere in the country.
By bringing into his government
parties of the right, the religious, the
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