the pope and mussolini by david i kertzer

His The Popes Against the Jews, published in 2001, was subsequently described as 'one of the most critically acclaimed and contentious books of its genre and generation.' The book analyzes the relation between the development of the Catholic Church and the growth of European anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th centuries, arguing that the Vatican and several popes contributed actively to fertilizing the ideological ground that produced the Holocaust. His book, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction in 1997. Kertzer is the author of numerous books and articles on politics and culture, European social history, anthropological demography, 19th-century Italian social history, contemporary Italian society and politics, and the history of Vatican relations with the Jews and the Italian state. From July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2011, Kertzer served as Provost at Brown. In 2005, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2001, he relinquished his post at Brown as Professor of History and was appointed Professor of Italian Studies. Sponsored by the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission, in 1978 he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Catania and in 2000, Chair at the University of Bologna.

That year he joined the faculty of Brown University as Professor of Anthropology and History. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Brandeis University in 1974 and taught at Bowdoin College until 1992. Biography ĭavid Kertzer graduated from Brown University in 1969. His book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (2014) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2015)ĭavid Israel Kertzer (born February 20, 1948) is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic, specializing in the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1997).

The pope and mussolini by david i kertzer