VATICAN CITY ? A Vatican university has hosted an unusual conference on the role of tattoos in shaping identity through history.
"Into the Skin: Identity, symbols and history of permanent body marks" is the brainchild of a Christian arts association and Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, an unlikely expert in the field given Judaism's prohibition of tattooing and the painful, permanent role that tattooed serial numbers played during the Holocaust.
Ambassador Mordechay Lewy acknowledged the paradox Tuesday, saying the living memory of Auschwitz's blue death stamps added another layer to Jewish aversion to tattooing.
Yet Lewy is a respected academic in the field ? and a fierce critic of what he calls the "commercialization" of an important aspect of cultural history.
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