Reminiscences of John M. Oesterreicher : oral history, 1990.

Biographical Note

Catholic priest, professor, author

Scope and Contents

Childhood, Stadt Liebau, Olmutz: Jewish family in Catholic setting, death of sister, Blaus-Weiss (Clue-White) youth group, influential books; University of Vienna, medicine; University of Graz, theology, The Society of Christ the King, Das Weiss Kreuz (The White Cross); ordained Catholic priest, 1927; Gloggnitz parish 1928-1931, Vienna parish; experiences with Nazi regime; Paris, sermons against Hitler; United States, 1940: Research Professor, Manhattanville College, Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies, Seton Hall University, Consultant for Secretariat for Christian Unity, honorary degrees; historic relationship between Christians and Jews; author: "Anti-Semitism, Anti-Christianism," "The Walls are Crumbling," "The Bridge," "Nostra Aetate"

Subjects

• Authors--Interviews.
• Christian converts from Judaism.
• College teachers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
• Oesterreicher, John M., 1904-1993--Interviews.
• Oral histories (document genres)
• Priesthood.
• Priests--Interviews.
• Religion--Study and teaching.
• Stein, Rose (Rózsi), interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• World War, 1939-1945--Nazism--Austria.

Access Conditions

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