Churches and the Holocaust: Unholy Teaching, Good Samaritans, and Reconciliation, Mordecai Paldiel (Jersey City, New Jersey: KTAV, 2006). 443 pp., $39.50
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1953 the Israeli government established Yad Vashem as a memorial to the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Ten years later commemoration was extended to non-Jews who had rescued or assisted Jews to escape from death at the hands of the Nazis or their associates. Over the years some twenty-one thousand of these “Righteous Gentiles” have been identified after careful scrutiny of depositions on their behalf. Each was honored with a tree in the stately Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles and a plaque giving the individual's name and country of origin. Mordecai Paldiel, director of the program, has selected for publication the stories of some three hundred Christian clerics, both male and female, from a variety of denominations across the European continent. (Their names are listed by country in a useful appendix). While much of this material is already known, Paldiel's convenient and comparative summary is welcome. His aim is to show that, despite the long history of Christian intolerance, there were Christian clerics who acted with humanity and generosity towards Jews in their hour of peril. In so doing, he claims, they paved the way for the striking change in Christian attitudes in the 1960s, particularly after the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II and his memorable visit of repentance to Jerusalem in 2000 set the seal on this reconciliation and opened the way for a new era in Christian-Jewish relations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".