Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Conference Report: Seminar, Religion and Secularism in Germany from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, German Studies Association, September 2024 By Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University This seminar, which…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Article Note: Harry Legg, “‘I Hid for Days in the Basement’: Moments of ‘Jewish’ Discovery in Pre-Holocaust Germany and Austria,” Contemporary European History (2024), 18 pages, doi:10.1017/S0960777324000262. By Kyle Jantzen,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Letter from the Editors (Fall 2024) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, As we near the end of September, I am again tardy in posting our latest…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Giuliana Chamedes, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019). ISBN 978-0-674-98342-7. By Martin Menke, Rivier University In this useful volume,…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Oliver Arnhold, “Entjudung” von Theologie und Kirche: Das Eisenacher “Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben” 1939–1945 (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020). ISBN:…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Stiftung Kloster Dalheim, LWL-Landesmuseum für Klosterkultur, eds., Und vergib uns unsere Schuld? Kirchen und Klöster im Nationalsozialismus (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2024). By Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Johannes Sachslehner, Hitlers Mann im Vatikan: Bischof Alois Hudal: ein dunkles Kapitel in der Geschichte der Kirche (Graz: Molden Verlag, 2019). ISBN 978-3-222-15040-1. By Martin Menke, Rivier University…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Review of Klara Kardos, The Auschwitz Journal: A Catholic Story from the Camps, trans. Fr. Julius D. Leloczky, O.Cist. (Paraclete Press, 2020). 144 Pp. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle, Pacific Lutheran…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Article Note: William Skiles, “Franz Hildebrandt on the BBC: Wartime Broadcasting to Nazi Germany,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 74, no. 1 (January 2023): 90-115. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University In…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024) Article Note: Bastiaan Bouwman, “Between Dialogue and Denunciation: The World Council of Churches, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights during the Cold War,” Contemporary European History 31 (2022): 15-30. Rebecca Carter-Chand, USHMM* *…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2024) Letter from the Editors (Summer 2024) By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University Dear Friends, As June turns into July, we reach the halfway mark of 2024, and I am…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2024) Review of Michael Brenner, In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism. Translated by Jeremiah Riemer. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022). 378 pages, ISBN: 978-0-691-19103-4. By…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2024) Review of Helge-Fabien Hertz, Evangelische Kirchen im Nationalsozialismus. Kollektivbiografische Untersuchung der schleswig-holsteinischen Pastorenschaft (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022). ISBN: 9783110760835; 1,778 pp. Reviewed for H-Soz-Kult by Manfred Gailus, Technische Universität…
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 2 (Summer 2024) Conference Announcement: Christianity and National Socialism in International Perspective Conference Announcement Christianity and National Socialism in International Perspective A Conference co-organized by: Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, United…