David I. Kertzer

El verdadero rol del papa durante la Segunda Guerra MundialCuando Pío XII murió en 1958, sus documentos permanecieron sellados en el Archivo Secreto Vaticano. Así, multitud de preguntas sobre lo que sabia e hizo durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el Holocausto quedaron sin respuesta. Con el tiempo, esas preguntas no han hecho mas que crecer y enconarse, y Pio XII se ha convertido en uno de los papas mas polemicos de la historia.En 2020, los archivos de Pio XII se desclasificaron finalmente. David I. Kertzer, uno de los principales estudiosos sobre el Vaticano, ha accedido a estas nuevas y cruciales fuentes, asi como a archivos de Italia, Alemania, Francia, Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos, para trazar un extraordinario y actualizado retrato de las acciones y omisiones del papa mientras la guerra desgarraba el continente y los nazis asesinaban en masa a los judios de Europa. El papa en guerra aclara los mitos que han rodeado a las acciones del papa entre 1939 y 1945, y muestra un papa que se plego repetidamente a la voluntad de Hitler y Mussolini.Esta es, sin duda, la obra definitiva sobre el rol del papa durante los terribles años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.Best seller del New York TimesMejor Libro del Año para el New YorkerGanador del Premio Julia Ward HoweNominado al Premio Pen/Jacqueline Bograd

Este volumen es el segundo de los tres que componen la Historia de la familia europea. En ella, eminentes especialistas europeos y americanos nos ofrecen una visión viva y amena de la institución familiar y sus relaciones en las diferentes regiones europeas, asi como de sus cambios y evoluciones en el transcurso de los ultimos quinientos años.Esta segunda parte describe la historia de la familia desde la Revolucion Francesa hasta el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial --periodo en el que Europa experimento una profunda transformacion politica y economicay describe la aparicion de la familia moderna. ¿Que efectos tuvieron en la vida diaria de la gente fenomenos como la industrializacion, la nueva tecnologia, el crecimiento de las ciudades y la revolucion de los transportes y las comunicaciones? ¿Como se adapto la familia a las exigencias de la nueva economia, que determinaba no solo como y donde vivia la gente sino tambien, al menos en muchos casos, donde trabajaba? En un estimulante texto introductorio, los compiladores del presente volumen examinan esos temas y explican como y por que la vida de la familia cambio tanto durante el siglo XIX y a la vez siguio un curso distinto en cada una de las diferentes partes de Europa.

Este volumen es el tercero y último de los que componen la Historia de la familia europea. En ella, eminentes especialistas europeos y americanos nos ofrecen una visión viva y amena de la institución familiar y sus relaciones en las diferentes regiones europeas, asi como de sus cambios y evoluciones en el transcurso de los ultimos quinientos años.El siglo XX presencio acontecimientos y cambios extraordinarios, sin precedentes en la historia humana. A partir de ahi, lo que mas importa a los autores es si las diversas sociedades europeas tendieron o no, y en que medida, a una progresiva homogeneidad en lo que respecta a la naturaleza de la vida familiar. Los compiladores de este estudio, que reunen a diez de los investigadores europeos y estadounidenses contemporaneos mas importantes de este ambito, presentan una coleccion de ensayos novedosos que exploran las influencias de la economia, el Estado, la Iglesia, las guerras mundiales y otras fuerzas demograficas en la familia europea durante el siglo mas violento de la historia.

La iglesia católica contribuyó a que el holocausto se hiciera realidad. Esta polémica tesis es la que Kertzer defiende en su obra, basándonse en numerosos documentos aparecidos en los archivos secret

The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of the bloody revolution that stripped the pope of political power and signaled the birth of modern Europe.[David I.] Kertzers brilliant treatment of the crisis in the papacy between 1846 and 1850 reads like a thriller. All the characters, from the poor of Rome to the king of Naples, stand out with a vividness that testifies to his mastery of prose.Jonathan Steinberg, The New York Review of BooksNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR AND THE SEATTLE TIMES Only two years after Pope Pius IXs election in 1846 had triggered great popular enthusiasm across Italy, the pope found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The revolutions that swept through Europe and shook Rome threatened to end the popes thousand-year reign over the Papal States, if not the papacy itself. The resulting dramawith a colorful cast of characters, from Louis Napoleon and his rabble-rousing cousin Charles Bonaparte to Garibaldi, Tocqueville, and Metternichwas rife with treachery, tragedy, and international power politics. David Kertzer, one of the worlds foremost experts on the history of Italy and the Vatican, brings this pivotal moment vividly to life. Praise for The Pope Who Would Be King Engaging, intelligent, and revealing . . . essential reading for those seeking to understand the perennial human forces that shape both power and faith. Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Soul of America Subtle and brilliantly told.Christopher Clark, London Review of Books Richly rewarding . . . church history at its most fascinating.The Christian Science Monitor Required, and riveting, reading that shares many of the qualities of Kertzers Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece: an exceptionally deep archival and scholarly foundation, and a rare capacity to tell the story of a critical chapter in European history with novelistic verve.Kevin Madigan, author of Medieval Christianity A remarkable achievementboth a page-turner and a major contribution to scholarship accomplished with outstanding clarity and economy. Kertzer gives this story a notable degree of freshness, and brings out vividly the determination, passions, blood, and gore of this dramatic moment in European history.John Davis, editor, Journal of Modern Italian Studies

In this meticulously researched, unflinching, and reasoned study, National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer presents shocking revelations about the role played by the Vatican in the development of modern anti-Semitism. Working in long-sealed Vatican archives, Kertzer unearths startling evidence to undermine the Churchs argument that it played no direct role in the spread of modern anti-Semitism. In doing so, he challenges the Vaticans recent official statement on the subject, We Remember. Kertzer tells an unsettling story that has stirred up controversy around the world and sheds a much-needed light on the past.

Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award FinalistThe extraordinary story of how the vaticans imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes worldly power in Italy.Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortaras six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his fathers arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boys kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchants family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.

Lincroyable destin dEdgardo Mortara. Lhistoire vraie dun enfant juif enlevé par le Pape adaptée par Marcho Bellocchio. Bologne, 1858. Des soldats de lInquisition font irruption chez un marchand juif, Momolo Mortara, pour enlever son fils, Edgardo, age de six ans. Les autorites ont appris que lenfant avait ete baptise en secret par la servante de la famille. En vertu de la loi papale en vigueur, une famille juive ne peut elever un enfant catholique. Au titre de cette " conversion ", Edgardo doit donc etre place dans un monastere pour y etre eduque. Cest le debut dune affaire qui va enflammer lEurope entiere. En Angleterre, les Rothschild se mobilisent ; Napoleon III intervient ; aux Etats-Unis, lopinion publique prend fait et cause contre le Vatican. En Italie, la campagne revolutionnaire de Garibaldi sappuie sur ce scandale pour instaurer un Etat laic. Devant cette levee de boucliers, plutot que de rendre lenfant a sa famille, le pape Pie IX, soutenu par lInquisition, va au contraire commencer a le considerer comme son propre fils. Quel sera finalement le destin dEdgardo ? Avec tout le suspens dun thriller historique, David I. Kertzer nous montre comment une tragedie humaine peut changer le cours de lhistoire. Steven Spielberg adapte actuellement le film pour le grand ecran avec le scenariste Tony Kushner (Munich, Lincoln).

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church and its conduct during World War II.Daniel SilvaKertzer brings all of his usual detective and narrative skills to [The Pope at War] . . . the most comprehensive account of the Vaticans relations to the Nazi and fascist regimes before and during the war.The Washington PostTolstoyan.Cynthia OzickBased on newly opened Vatican archives, a groundbreaking, explosive, and riveting book about Pope Pius XII and his actions during World War II, including how he responded to the Holocaust, by the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Pope and MussoliniWINNER OF THE JULIA WARD HOWE AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWhen Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and festered, making Pius XII one of the most controversial popes in Church history, especially now as the Vatican prepares to canonize him.In 2020, Pius XIIs archives were finally opened, and David I. Kertzerwidely recognized as one of the worlds leading Vatican scholarshas been mining this new material ever since, revealing how the pope came to set aside moral leadership in order to preserve his churchs power.Based on thousands of never-before-seen documents not only from the Vatican, but from archives in Italy, Germany, France, Britain, and the United States, The Pope at War paints a new, dramatic portrait of what the pope did and did not do as war enveloped the continent and as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europes Jews. The book clears away the myths and sheer falsehoods surrounding the popes actions from 1939 to 1945, showing why the pope repeatedly bent to the wills of Hitler and Mussolini.Just as Kertzers Pulitzer Prizewinning The Pope and Mussolini became the definitive book on Pope Pius XI and the Fascist regime, The Pope at War is destined to become the most influential account of his successor, Pius XII, and his relations with Mussolini and Hitler. Kertzer shows why no full understanding of the course of World War II is complete without knowledge of the dramatic, behind-the-scenes role played by the pope. This remarkably researched book is replete with revelations that deserve the adjective explosive, says Kevin Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard University. The Pope at War is a masterpiece.

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE From National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer comes the gripping story of Pope Pius XIs secret relations with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This groundbreaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives, including reports from Mussolinis spies inside the highest levels of the Church, will forever change our understanding of the Vaticans role in the rise of Fascism in Europe. The Pope and Mussolini 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 devout, the other thuggish and profane. Yet Pius XI and Il Duce had many things in common. They shared a distrust of democracy and a visceral hatred of Communism. Both were prone to sudden fits of temper and were fiercely protective of the prerogatives of their office. (We have many interests to protect, the Pope declared, soon after Mussolini seized control of the government in 1922.) Each relied on the other to consolidate his power and achieve his political goals. In a challenge to the conventional history of this period, in which a heroic Church does battle with the Fascist regime, Kertzer shows how Pius XI played a crucial role in making Mussolinis dictatorship possible and keeping him in power. In exchange for Vatican support, Mussolini restored many of the privileges the Church had lost and gave in to the popes demands that the police enforce Catholic morality. Yet in the last years of his lifeas the Italian dictator grew ever closer to Hitlerthe pontiffs faith in this treacherous bargain started to waver. With his health failing, he began to lash out at the Duce and threatened to denounce Mussolinis anti-Semitic racial laws before it was too late. Horrified by the threat to the Church-Fascist alliance, the Vaticans inner circle, including the future Pope Pius XII, struggled to restrain the headstrong pope from destroying a partnership that had served both the Church and the dictator for many years. The Pope and Mussolini brims with memorable portraits of the men who helped enable the reign of Fascism in Italy: Father Pietro Tacchi Venturi, Piuss personal emissary to the dictator, a wily anti-Semite known as Mussolinis Rasputin; Victor Emmanuel III, the king of Italy, an object of widespread derision who lacked the statureliterally and figurativelyto stand up to the domineering Duce; and Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, whose political skills and ambition made him Mussolinis most powerful ally inside the Vatican, and positioned him to succeed the pontiff as the controversial Pius XII, whose actions during World War II would be subject for debate for decades to come. With the recent opening of the Vatican archives covering Pius XIs papacy, the full story of the Popes complex relationship with his Fascist partner can finally be told. Vivid, dramatic, with surprises at every turn, The Pope and Mussolini is history writ large and with the lightning hand of truth.

La extraordinaria historia real de cómo un niño judío de seis años, raptado por el Vaticano en 1858, precipitó el derrumbe del poder temporal del Papa en Italia. El libro que fascinó a Steven Spielbe

Este volumen es el primero de los tres que componen la Historia de la familia europea. En ella, eminentes especialistas europeos y americanos nos ofrecen una visión viva y amena de la institución familiar y sus relaciones en las diferentes regiones europeas, asi como de sus cambios y evoluciones en el transcurso de los ultimos quinientos años.De acuerdo con estas premisas, el presente volumen examina la vida de la familia europea junto con las fuerzas institucionales, economicas, politicas y culturales que la impulsaron-- desde los inicios de la Edad Moderna hasta la Revolucion Francesa.En sus paginas se abordan temas como la vivienda, la alimentacion, la organizacion domestica, la naturaleza de la legislacion familiar, el impacto de los cambios religiosos, la incidencia de factores demograficos como la enfermedad y la mortalidad infantil, las relaciones entre padres e hijos, las consecuencias de los nuevos usos en el matrimonio, el divorcio y las relaciones de parentesco.En su descripcion de la historia de la cultura y de la sexualidad, los autores de los diferentes capitulos utilizan tecnicas y enfoques que les permiten ofrecer un cuadro llamado sin duda a cambiar nuestra imagen de esta epoca historica.