Proceedings from this conference detail the mass murder of the European Jews and the origins of a much improved relationship between Catholics and Jews in the aftermath of the Shoah. Nostra Aetate, passed in 1965 at the end of Vatican II, represented a new beginning in Jewish-Catholic dialogue. The outstanding scholars featured in this volume describe the impact of these two events and the tremendous need to learn from the past in order to better understand the present and future.

Introduction / Carol Rittner -- Teaching for the future : Nostra aetate and the Holocaust / Elena G. Procario-Foley -- The Holocaust by bullets / Patrick Desbois -- Wartime rape : understanding women's experiences during the Holocaust / Alysa Landry -- The new normal-- a street boy / George D. Schwab -- Injustice illuminated : the Holocaust art of Arthur Szyk / Irvin Ungar -- When theology and racism mix : Catholicism, antisemitism, and national socialism / Kevin P. Spicer -- The unfinished reforms of Nostra aetate : five areas for further consideration / Dennis McManus -- Nostra aetate and the failures of ethics / John K. Roth -- Fifty years of Catholic-Jewish relations : the continuing challenges / John T. Pawlikowski -- Teaching, preaching, and witnessing : three women who made a difference / Carol Rittner -- Whither Christian-Jewish relations in the 21st century? / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- Dare we hope? / Mary C. Boys -- The authority of those who suffer / Mary Jo Leddy -- Reconciliation : a commitment to unsettling empathy / Björn Krondorfer -- Ethel LeFrak / Gemma Del Duca.