David I. Kertzer, Author . Houghton Mifflin $26 (357p) ISBN 978-0-618-22442-5
"Modern Italy was founded... over the dead body of Pope Pius IX," writes Kertzer, author of the National Jewish Book Award–winning The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
(also a National Book Award finalist), in this riveting and fast-paced
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David I. Kertzer, Author . Houghton Mifflin $24 (237p) ISBN 978-0-618-55106-4
In this absorbing account, Amalia Bagnacavalli’s tale is a horrific one. An impoverished Italian peasant in the late 19th century, Amalia was hired as a wet nurse and contracted syphilis from the infant assigned her by a Bologna foundling home.
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David I. Kertzer, Author Beacon Press (MA) $25 (252p) ISBN 978-0-8070-5604-2
Pregnant single women in 19th-century Italy, threatened with the loss of their own and their families' honor, gave their babies to foundling homes, where hundreds of thousands of children died from starvation and disease. In this shocking and...
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David I. Kertzer, Author Knopf Publishing Group $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-45031-3
The few resident Jews in the declining temporal papacy under Pius IX in 1858 were outraged but not surprised when a six-year-old boy in Bologna, Edgardo Mortara, was seized by the police and removed from his parents' home. The Vatican's...
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David I. Kertzer, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-375-40623-2
A number of excellent studies have recently addressed the political and social role of the Catholic Church in Europe during the Holocaust. Along comes a book that explores the church's role in setting the stage for that Holocaust. If the title...
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David I. Kertzer. Random, $32 (576p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9346-2
The 2002 public release of the archives of Pius XI’s papacy revealed a trove of historical treasures that Brown University professor Kertzer (The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara) found “irresistible.” He brings to life an intriguing and unlikely...
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