Abstract:Much of what we know about Jewish–Catholic relations in postwar America comes from the scholarship on litigation over school prayer, released time for children's worship, and clashes over public expressions of religion. This article uses the Hildy McCoy adoption case—the most controversial and mass-mediated adoption struggle of the 1950s—as a lens for exploring another divisive issue that has received almost no attention in the literature on postwar religious conflict in the United States: the permanent transfer of children from one religious group to another. The Hildy McCoy case, which has largely been ignored by historians, reveals how debates between Jews and Catholics about the preservation of children's religious heritage that had been raging across the Atlantic in post-Holocaust Europe were transplanted to American soil in the 1950s and how those debates could also take decidedly different trajectories in the turbulent religious environment of the United States.

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希尔迪·麦考伊的“绑架”：大屠杀阴影下的儿童收养与宗教冲突

摘要：我们对战后美国犹太-天主教关系的了解大部分来自关于学校祈祷诉讼、儿童礼拜时间的释放以及宗教公开表达冲突的奖学金。本文使用 Hildy McCoy 收养案——1950 年代最具争议和以大众为媒介的收养斗争——作为探讨另一个在美国战后宗教冲突文献中几乎没有受到关注的分裂问题的镜头：永久将儿童从一个宗教团体转移到另一个宗教团体。Hildy McCoy 案在很大程度上被历史学家忽视，它揭示了犹太人和天主教徒之间关于保护儿童