Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

March 8, 2016

The Italian Rabbi Who Survived the Holocaust Only to Convert to Catholicism

Getting back at his fellow Jews?

Born in Austrian Galicia in 1881, Israel Zolli (né Zoller) studied at the rabbinical seminary in Florence and later served as the rabbi of Trieste and then Rome. Although he authored a scholarly study of the New Testament, published in 1938, few of his congregants expected that he, along with his wife, would convert to Catholicism less than a decade later. Shalom Goldman writes:

SaveGift