The Chief Rabbi, the Pope, and the Holocaust - An Era in Vatican-Jewish Relations - Wallace P. Sillanpoa - Paperback Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - 2008
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In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome''s ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists in Italy and throughout the Jewish world by converting to Catholicism and taking as his baptismal name, Eugenio, to honor Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) for what Zolli saw as his great humanitarianism toward the Jews during the Holocaust
