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David Kertzer @DavidKertzer

Pulitzer Prize-winning author; anthropologist, historian, prof & former provost @BrownUniversity; @WatsonInstitute; books on politics & religion, Italy, Vatican

Joined November 2011
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Glad to see this new(er) French edition of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara is being read and cited....
LpL@Spineur1
May 10
Replying to @philippe_rouyer @ARTEfr
A la base du film, il y a le travail d'historien de David Kertzer. Au final, il n'y a que des perdants: Les parents d'Edgardo ne recupereront pas leur fils qui les reniera, le pape Pie XII perdra les états papaux suite au retrait des troupes de Napoléon III.
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Shocking news. A great historian and a great colleague and friend. He will be sorely missed.
WPRI 12@wpri12
Jun 8
Gordon S. Wood, the eminent historian of the American Revolution, has been identified as the pedestrian struck and killed in the parking lot outside Shaw’s in East Providence on Sunday. He was 92: wpri.com/top-stories/famed-h…
Gordon S. Wood, 1933-2026

ALT Gordon S. Wood, 1933-2026

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Fascinating to see the labelling of places in the map of Rome in the new Chinese edition of my book, The Pope at War.
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Piece worth reading on Italian fascism as political religion and lessons for perils of rise of fascism today. I don't entirely agree with Emilio Gentile's view of fascism as religion but this is worth pondering. sojo.net/magazine/march-2026…

How Fascism Became a Religion

Want to understand today’s political landscape? Study Mussolini’s story first.

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American Academy in Rome announced today bequest of $3 million in support of the Humanities at the AAR from renowned classicist Michael Putnam. aarome.org/news/features/hon…

Honoring Michael Putnam and His Continued Legacy at the Academy

The American Academy in Rome is honored to announce that it has received a $3 million bequest from Michael C. J. Putnam, beloved Fellow, Resident, and Trustee, in vital support of the Humanities. In...

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As usual, on target… nytimes.com/2026/01/27/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Opinion | ‘I Wouldn’t Say the Democrats Are in Good Shape’

The moment is ripe to deal a debilitating blow to Trumpism and the MAGA movement. But who can deliver it?

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Glad to see there is interest in Germany in a topic that is in some ways narrowly Irish.
ITQ journal@ITQjournal
Jan 24
David Kertzer’s article which will appear in the February issue, but is already available on OnlineFirst, has been picked up by Catholic media in Germany. @DavidKertzer @StPatsMaynooth katholisch.de/artikel/66941-…
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My tribute with John Bodel to our remarkable colleague, classicist Michael Putnam, now available open access in the latest issue of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome jstor.org/stable/27442700?se…
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My new book, THE SECRET INQUISITION, announced today in Publishers Lunch newsletter. Publication date a year from now with Random House. The story told for the first time of the thousands of Jews persecuted under Mussolini's racial laws who sought to be recategorized as Aryans.
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ITQ journal@ITQjournal
Jan 5
Prof. David Kertzer’s article on “Eugenio Pacelli and the Vatican’s Irish Plan to Save Baptised Jews (1938-1939) has just been published on OnlineFirst ahead of the Feb 2026 issue. See below. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Eugenio Pacelli and the Vatican’s Irish Plan to Save Baptized Jews (1938–1939) - David I. Kertzer,...

Shortly after the enactment in September 1938 of the first of Fascist Italy’s anti-Jewish ‘racial laws’, which mandated the expulsion from the country of all fo...

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Sad but true, referring to Pius XII in 1943.
Alberto Clark Nunez@anunez58
28 Dec 2025
“In his four years as pope, Pius XII had never spoken out against Italy’s anti-Jewish racial laws.” ― David I. Kertzer, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler 🇻🇦🇮🇱🇻🇦 Companion book to the Movie Nuremberg. @russellcrowe @Pontifex @VaticanNews
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My article with Roberto Benedetti, "Mussolini Decides: Determining Racial Identity under Italy's Racial Laws," has just appeared in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies: tandfonline.com/journals/rmi…
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St Patrick's Pontifical University@StPatsMaynooth
8 Oct 2025
A big thanks to Prof David Kertzer who delivered a wonderful lecture last night at the Annual Monsignor Patrick J Corish lecture 📸(L-R) Rev Dr Michael Shortall, Interim President, Prof David Kertzer, Brown University, and Prof Salvador Ryan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History
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Salvador Ryan@SalvadorRyan
14 Oct 2025
Last week’s Monsignor Patrick J. Corish Lecture, delivered at @StPatsMaynooth by Prof. David Kertzer @DavidKertzer features in The Tablet @The_Tablet. This paper will soon be published in @ITQjournal.
Sarah R Mac Donald@SarahRMacDonald
14 Oct 2025
A reexamination of a failed attempt in #Ireland to help #Jewish people persecuted in #WorldWarII - a report of the annual Corish 2025 lecture @StPatsMaynooth by professor @DavidKertzer #PiusXII thetablet.co.uk/news/a-reexa… @SalvadorRyan @The_Tablet
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Glad to have had chance to speak at Ireland's pontifical university earlier this month and glad that The Tablet in the UK has featured my talk there. A reexamination of a failed attempt in Ireland to help Jewish people persecuted in World War II thetablet.co.uk/news/a-reexa…

A reexamination of a failed attempt in Ireland to help Jewish people persecuted in World War II -...

The notion that Pope Pius XII was ‘Hitler’s Pope’ is “totally inappropriate” as “he certainly had no love for Hitler and saw Nazism as an antagonist to the

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Never thought I would see this happen in western Europe. Opinion: Jews feel safer facing Hamas in Israel than living in Labour’s Britain - The Telegraph apple.news/Aqpg9LTjtS5Sf8EOw…

Opinion: Jews feel safer facing Hamas in Israel than living in Labour’s Britain

When our community hears the Prime Minister and his party offer thoughts and prayer, it is hard not to see them as part of the problem

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Michail Raftakis@RaftakisM
11 Sep 2025
Today, keynote talk is given by Pulitzer Prize winner David Kertzer on Changing Jews into Aryan’s in Fascist Italy #ESHD2025
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I enjoyed this discussion of The Pope at War and glad to see the National D-Day Memorial publicizing it....
National D-Day Memorial@DDayMemorial
25 Jun 2025
NEW EPISODE! Hailed as the most important book ever written about the conduct of the Catholic Church in WWII, we have more of The Pope at War with author David Kertzer. ow.ly/Yqes50VrIGj
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Kindle promotion day today: The Pope and Mussolini for $1.99 amazon.com/dp/0812993462/?be…

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

tells the story of two men who came to power in 1922, and together changed the course of twentieth-century history. In most respects, they could not have been more different. One was scholarly and...

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