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Another Modernity Elia Benamozegh’s Jewish Universalism - Clémence Boulouque

h/t @MauricePinay

Reform Jew Leo Baeck wrote preface to German edition of Aimé Pallière’s memoirs and Louise Waterman Wise (wife of Rabbi Stephen Wise) translated the memoirs into English. Rabbi Stephen Wise brought Pallière to United States where he toured from city to city preaching noahide laws

“Emanuele’s outreach to Henry Morgenthau, Sr., a financier and prominent philanthropist of the American Jewish community, to solicit funding for a translation into English certainly bespoke his desire to see his father’s [Elie Benamozegh] work more widely circulated.”

“nor could [Aimé Pallière] find a home within Judaism. He ended his life in poverty, finding his final shelter in a convent. Because of this fate, perceptions about the truthfulness of his message have been blurred...”

“... leading to various hypotheses about his return—or relapse—to Catholicism and even suspicions about whether he was genuinely detached from Christianity at all.”

“Aimé Pallière wrote that Benamozegh had said that “what has been known by the name of Christianity is in reality the Noahide religion” and characterized it bluntly: “[Regarding] Noahism, one may continue to call it Christianity disencumbered...”

“..., of course, of the Trinity and the Incarnation, beliefs which are contrary to the Old Testament and perhaps even to the New.” Notable precedents in identifying the Noahide Laws with Christianity include the anti-Sabbatean rabbi Jacob Emden (1696–1776), who wrote:...”

“...“The writers of the Gospels never meant to say that the Nazarene came to abolish Judaism, but only that he came to establish a religion for the Gen- tiles from that time onward. Nor was it new, but actually ancient; they being the Seven Commandments of the Sons of Noah”

Lots of information on the machinations of Aimé Pallière and the rotten fruits they eventually brought about.

“Livorno remained rebellious, and two Livornese Jews—Giuseppe Ottolenghi and Emanuele Montefiore—joined the ranks of the secret society I veri Italiani (The True Italians), linked to Mazzini’s Young Italians.”

“Benamozegh’s influence was primarily channeled through Josué Jéhouda (1892–1966), a member of the Jewish delegation who sat on the commission specifically dedicated to the fight against anti-Semitism.” #VaticanII

“Benamozegh’s influence among postwar French Catholic thinkers, es- pecially left-wing Catholics (who became known as “the other left”), was most felt from the mid-fifties until the mid-seventies.”

“Building bridges while still demanding that the church take responsibility for its dereliction was the task that another claimant of Benamozegh’s legacy, the Argentinian-born Rabbi Leon Klenicki took upon himself as he pursued Jewish-Christian dialogue at the...Vatican”