:: SIDIC - International Service of Jewish-Christian Documentation ::

Giovanni Paolo II e il Rabino Toaff, nella Sinagoga di Roma - 1986 The SIDIC Rome Center - Service International de Documentation Judéo-Chrétienne (International Service of Jewish-Christian Documentation), one of the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, was created in November 1965 by several bishops and experts who had labored for the declaration Nostra Aetate (par. 4) concerning the Christian Churches' relations with the Jewish people.

Underlying all of SIDIC Rome's work is the call of the Church to understand and esteem the Jewish people as it understands itself, and to deepen Christian faith through the study of the faith of the Jewish people, whom Pope John Paul II referred to as "our elder brothers." (Who we are)

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Documentation Collections

The SIDIC Rome Documentation Center makes available to the public a large collection of documents concerning Jewish-Christian relations.

It includes a collection of more than 6.200 documents mainly on paper, available at the Documentation center. It also includes materials which have not yet been catalogued: paper, audiocassettes, and videocassettes.

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E-Sidic Collection

The E-SIDIC collection contains digital texts of lectures, articles, news on jewish-christian relations.

The texts of these documents are available only at the Sidic-Rome Documentation center.
Check the catalog to see the titles and the abstracts (in italian).

The SIDIC gathers about 150 periodicals and newsletters in different languages, available at the Documentation center. (See the list)

Other centers NDS for the dialogue

Londra - Regno Unito

" The problem of Jewish/Christian relations concerns the Church as such, since it is when "pondering her own mystery" that she encounters the mystery of Israel! "

Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, Guidelines and Suggestions, 1974