Pulitzer Prize Winning Author David Kertzer to Headline Drew University’s 2024 George and Alicia Karpati Lectureship – “World War II and the Holocaust: What the Vatican Did – and Didn’t Do”

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author David Kertzer to Headline Drew University’s 2024 George and Alicia Karpati Lectureship – “World War II and the Holocaust: What the Vatican Did – and Didn’t Do”

What: Drew University welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning author and leading Vatican scholar David Kertzer as honored guest for the 2024 George and Alicia Karpati Lectureship. In a thought-provoking virtual event moderated by Drew University President Hilary L. Link, Ph.D., Kertzer will discuss his latest book, The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler. An instant New York Times bestseller, the book chronicles Pope Pius XII’s actions as World War II expanded across Europe and the Nazis began exterminating millions of Jews. Kertzer reveals how the pope set aside moral leadership to preserve the church’s power. This ground-breaking work has been called “the most important book ever written about the Catholic Church and its conduct during World War II.”

It is free to the Drew University community and the general public, thanks to the generous support of Michael and Noémi Neidorff, in honor of her parents. The George and Alicia Karpati Lectureship brings outstanding authors and scholars in Jewish Studies, Eastern European history, and Holocaust Studies to Drew University.

Who: David Kertzer is the author of a dozen books and the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The Pope and Mussolini. He was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Award in Nonfiction for The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. Kertzer is the Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science Emeritus at Brown University.

When: This special virtual event will be held on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Where: An Online Event: Register HERE!

Interviews: Dr. Kertzer is available for interviews to share the major findings he revealed at the Drew University Lectureship.

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About Drew University
Drew University, a Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts university, includes the College of Liberal Arts, the Drew Theological School and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies.  Drew is located on a beautiful, wooded campus in Madison, New Jersey, a thriving small town close to New York City.  It has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 students and has 136 full-time faculty members, 96 percent of whom hold a terminal degree in their field. The Theological and Caspersen schools offer master’s and doctoral degrees, and the College confers BA and BS degrees in 42 disciplines, 61 available minors, and offers 18 pre-professional programs, 19 dual-degree programs, and seven New York Semesters.

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