A story of loss and triumph, and ultimately, unlikely partnership.

Dr. Norman C. Tobias presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: eminent French Jewish historian Jules Isaac. 

This embrace put to an end the tradition, more than 15 centuries old, of a contemptuous anti-Jewish rhetoric that had served as taproot to racial varieties of antisemitism. Prior to Isaac's thought and activism, this tradition had never been denounced in so compelling a manner that the Church was forced to address it. 

Isaac devoted his years after World War II to a crusade for scriptural truth and rectification of Christian teaching regarding Jews and Judaism. His crusade culminated in an unpublicized audience with Pope John XXIII—a meeting that moved the pope to make a last-minute addition to the Second Vatican Council agenda and set in motion the events leading to a revolution in Catholic teaching about Jews.

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