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One Catholic encyclopedia writes that the number exceeded 100,000; [13] while the Jewish Encyclopedia records approximately 190,000. [14] Other contemporary sources put the number at 130,000 [15] or even as many as 250,000. [16] As a result of the high rate of conversion, many Catholics can be found with a measure of Jewish parentage.
"The Conversion of the Jews", 1958 short story by Phillip Roth, included in the collection Goodbye, Columbus Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Conversion of the Jews .
Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation League have denounced attempts to convert Jews to Christianity as causing antisemitism. [14] Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 suggested that the church should not be targeting Jews for conversion efforts, since "Israel is in the hands of God, who will save it ‘as a whole’ at the proper time."
The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some statistics on conversion of Jews to Protestantism, to Roman Catholicism, and to Orthodox Christianity [2] Some 2,000 European Jews converted to Christianity every year during the 19th century, but in the 1890s the number was running closer to 3,000 per year—1,000 in Austria Hungary (Galizian Poland), 1,000 ...
Severus of Menorca was a bishop on the island of Menorca in the early 5th century. [1]: 1 According to the Epistula Severi (Letter on the Conversion of the Jews written by Severus of Menorca) Severus was at the forefront of a mass conversion where most of the Jewish population on the island converted to Christianity in 418 C.E. [1]: 1 The Epistula Severi explains that the relationship between ...
In recent decades, there has been a renewed Jewish conversion interest with some Bnei Anusim, that is, the descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to other faiths. The Hebrew term for forced converts is "Anusim" (lit. "forced [converts]"), while the descendants of said converts are called "Bnei Anusim" (lit. "children of forced [converts]").
A Vatican expert in Catholic-Jewish dialogue said it was the first time a repudiation of active conversion of Jews had been so clearly stated in a Vatican document.
The conversion of Jews to Catholicism during the Holocaust is one of the most controversial aspects of the record of Pope Pius XII during The Holocaust.. According to John Morley, who wrote about Vatican diplomacy during the Holocaust, "one of the principal concerns of the Vatican, especially in the early days of the war, was those Jews who had converted to Catholicism, the so-called Catholic ...