David I. Kertzer's Blog, page 2

The Organization of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) just posted on line a video interview with Kertzer on the controversies revolving around the recent opening of the Vatican archives for the papacy of Pius XII

https://vimeo.com/417072020

Interview for Giornale di Storia

https://www.giornaledistoria.net/saggi/mestiere-di-storico/pio-xii-la-guerra-e-il-silenzio-del-papa-intervista-a-david-kertzer/

Interview for the Italian newspaper La Stampa: "The silence of Pius XII? He feared the German Catholics' schism"

/sites/davidkertzer.com/files/File/la_stampa_intervista_kertzer_11_marzo_2020.pdf

What the Vatican’s Secret Archives Are About to Reveal Documents from the papacy of Pius XII may settle some long-debated questions.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/what-vaticans-secret-archives-are-about-reveal/607261/

Interview for the CBC radio: Vatican set to open secret archives of controversial wartime Pope Pius XII

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.5476724/vatican-set-to-open-secret-archives-of-controversial-wartime-pope-pius-xii-1.5476730

Interview for the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, "1849, Tocqueville's paradox"

https://www.corriere.it/cultura/19_dicembre_14/1849-paradosso-tocqueville-pio-ix-contro-mazzini-garibaldi-9fc62ffe-1ea2-11ea-9389-bd538526c9e7.shtml?refresh_ce-cp

 

David Kertzer on Italian National TV, Passato e Presente on RaiPlay

https://www.raiplay.it/video/2019/12/passato-e-presente---pio-ix-lultimo-papa-re-200244db-1ad0-4876-8f63-d1d665076406.html

Lead article in the fall 2019 issue of Holocaust & Genocide Studies:

Kertzer's comparative examination, with coauthor Gunnar Mokosch, of Italian Fascist and Nazi use of the ritual murder charge as a way of generating popular hatred of the Jews, has just been published as the lead article in the fall 2019 issue of Holocuast & Genocide Studies, and provides the image for the cover of the issue

https://academic.oup.com/hgs/article/33/2/177/5607382

Great review of The Pope Who Would be King in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, which concludes:

Grippingly written, page-turning and scholarly, this book is an immense achievement which few can hope to equal. This is a magnificent book; analysis and narrative at their finest. 

The new Italian edition of The Pope Who Would be King chosen as Sky TV book of the week:

https://video.sky.it/news/mondo/consigli-di-lettura-il-papa-che-voleva-essere-re/v545384.vid