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Dalin received a bachelor's degree from the
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, a master's and doctorate from
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, and his Rabbinic ordination from the
Jewish Theological Seminary of AmericaThe Jewish Theological Seminary of America is the academic and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism.The Jewish Theological Seminary operates five schools: Albert A...
.
In 2001 Joseph Bottum commissioned Dalin to write an omnibus review article on the books relating to
Pope Pius XIIPope Pius XII , born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli , reigned as the 260th Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958....
, who was the centre of controversy in the wake of
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's book "
Hitler's PopeHitler's Pope is a book published in 1999 by the British journalist and author John Cornwell that examines the actions of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi era and explores the charge that he assisted in the legitimization of Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany through the pursuit of a Reichskonkordat in...
", the Weekly Standard. Published in February 2001, it concluded that Pius XII was as a Righteous Gentile who saved hundreds of thousands of lives during the Holocaust. Button asserted the "essay that went far beyond any claim I had been willing to make". The reviews were mixed. At a Holocaust symposium the next summer, one conservative editor, who had previously supported Button's approach, declared he would never read another word David Dalin wrote. Button asserts that in "conservative Catholic" circles where "a hunger to flee to small fellowships of the saved and away from the corruption of the public square, an embracing of a self-image as victims" it was well received. Button concluded that "thereby they confirm, for those whom the essay only angered, that David Dalin let himself be used as a Jew to advance a sectarian Catholic agenda".
Works
- Public Affairs and the Jewish Community: The Changing Political World of San Francisco Jews (1977) doctoral dissertation
- American Jews and the Separationist Faith. A New Debate on Religion in Public Life (1993) editor
- From Marxism to Judaism: Selected Essays of Will Herberg
Will Herberg was an American Jewish writer, intellectual and scholar. He was known as a social philosopher and sociologist of religion, as well as a Jewish theologian.-Early life:...
(1997) editor
- Making a Life, Building a Community: A History of the Jews of Hartford (1997) with Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65...
- Secularism, Spirituality, and the Future of American Jewry (1999) editor with Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams is an American lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the United States Holocaust...
- The Presidents of the United States and the Jews (2000) with Alfred J. Kolatch
- Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (2000) editor with Jonathan D. Sarna
- The Pius War : Responses to the Critics of Pius XII (2004) with Joseph Bottum
- The Myth of Hitler's Pope
The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis is a book written by American historian Rabbi David G. Dalin and published in 2005....
: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis (2005)
- Icon of Evil
Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam is a 2008 book by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann. It is a biography of Haj Amin al-Husseini , who was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during the British Mandate period...
Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (2008) with John F. Rothmann
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