David Kertzer

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

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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.
https://t.co/Qke34fX1cQ

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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.

https://t.co/WvKa753txK

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As usual, on target…
https://t.co/mBKdPntiuF via @NYTOpinion

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Glad to see there is interest in Germany in a topic that is in some ways narrowly Irish.

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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

https://t.co/u1RYPJpL4y

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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

https://t.co/UBdNWvpUgn

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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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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.

https://t.co/7YSGkR6nVl

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Sad but true, referring to Pius XII in 1943.

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“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.
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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:
https://t.co/OHsomo7YTF

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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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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.

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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 https://t.co/Ndis9WwSSn

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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 https://t.co/TZQQtI5Kgq

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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....

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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. https://t.co/kiQ1UIPv9P

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Kindle promotion day today: The Pope and Mussolini for $1.99

https://t.co/4m4Cij0Xrc

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The Pope at War Part 1 with David Kertzer — On the Someone Talked #podcast, @DavidKertzer discusses new revelations about what Pope Pius XII did and did not do during World War II, based on newly opened Vatican archives.

https://t.co/jZkL9SY65A

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NEW EPISODE! With Pius XII's archives finally opened, David Kertzer paints a new, dramatic portrait of what the pope did and did not do as war enveloped Europe from 1939 to 1945. https://t.co/xLfbXh7w6D