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Pope Francis Grew Up alongside Jews in Argentina
(Telegraph-UK) Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, who died on Monday, grew up in the Flores neighborhood in Buenos Aires. This excerpt from his autobiography describes his view of that world. "The barrio was a complex, multiethnic and multicultural microcosm. Our family was always on excellent terms with the Jews, who in Flores were called "the Russians" because many came from the area of Odesa where a vast Jewish community lived, large numbers of whom would be massacred by Romanian and Nazi occupying forces during World War II. Many customers of the factory where my father worked were Jewish, employed in the textile industry, and many were our friends."