A Presentation of
the Santa Fe Distinguished Lecture Series and
the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival.

Pulitzer Prize winning author David Kertzer of Brown University wraps up the series Jews, the Vatican, and the Holocaust on December 9 when he joins award winning author and social anthropologist Ron Duncan Hart, Ph.D. in a conversation on “The Vatican, Forced Baptism, and the Jews”. Kertzer’s book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, won the Pulitzer Prize and was also a finalist for the National Book Award. Prof. Kertzer is the leading authority on Jews and the Vatican during World War II and was one of the first researchers to be given access to the Vatican’s WW II archives that opened for the first time earlier this year. His groundbreaking research details the role of the Papacy in the rise of Fascism and anti-Semitism in Italy and Germany, and he shares his discoveries with us.