David I Kertzer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 92254 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David I Kertzer |
| NOMBRES | David I |
| APELLIDO | Kertzer |
| FIRMA | KERTZER D I |
| AFILIACIONES | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9507-3154 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 150 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 934 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 148 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Eugenio Pacelli and the Vatican’s Irish Plan to Save Baptized Jews (1938–1939)
Shortly after the enactment in September 1938 of the first of Fascist Italy’s anti-Jewish ‘racial laws’, which mandated the expulsion from the country of all foreign Jews, desperate pleas for help began flooding into the Vatican. The pleas came overwhelmingly from Jews who had been baptised. Vatican secretary of state, Eugenio Pacelli, initially saw in Ireland the best possibility for a solution. Over the next months a thick correspondence develo…
Italy’s Christian Democracy
Mussolini decides
Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews
Monseigneur Angelo Dell’Acqua et la Shoah
The recent Vatican archives release for Pius XII’s papacy has revealed Angelo Dell’Acqua’s significant role. Initially a low-ranking Secretariat of State member, he handled affairs regarding Jews in Europe from the late 1930s through World War II and after. Despite no clear Jewish expertise, Pius XI and Pius XII tapped him to address appeals from persecuted Jews and requests for papal condemnations of Jewish persecution and extermination efforts.…
Jews as Non-Aryans
In the summer of 1938, Italy's Fascist regime announced its new ‘racial’ policy, soon to be followed by a series of draconian racial laws. The policy was based on the principle that Catholic Italians were of the Aryan race and Jewish Italians belonged to a separate race of non-Aryans. Previously the Vatican had made no such racial distinction. Yet, notwithstanding the frequent claim that the Church has never distinguished between Catholics and Je…
Galeazzo Ciano’s Vatican Embassy
As the war was going badly in early 1943, Mussolini took the dramatic step of replacing most of his government ministers. Of the men sacked, none drew more attention than Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law, who had served as minister of foreign affairs since 1936. The announcement that Ciano would immediately be appointed as Italy’s ambassador to the Holy See sparked much speculation in the diplomatic community, where it was viewed as a possi…
The Invention of Papal History
Bauer uses the case of Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568), an Augustinian friar, to shed light on the development of history writing in early modern Rome as well as on the historiography of the papacy. Panvinio, who left few published works but many manuscripts at his death, accomplished a remarkable amount of historical research during his short life and, as Bauer demonstrates, was an important innovator in historical method. The book’s title refers t…
Italian Catholic press support for the Axis War
Within the larger debate over Italians’ attitudes toward the decision to join the Second World War on Germany’s side, and their subsequent attitude toward fighting alongside the Nazis, the question of the role played by the Roman Catholic Church remains controversial. By focusing on Italy’s three major Catholic daily newspapers for the years 1939 to 1943, and on the behind-the-scenes actions of the Fascist authorities, we here show one of the pri…
In the Name of the Cross
The role played by Christianity and Christian churches in the demonization of the Jews by the German National Socialist and Italian Fascist regimes remains a subject of intense controversy. The historiography at the base of this debate has been largely rooted in research on either Germany or Italy, yet comparative empirical study is particularly well-suited to allow broader generalizations. Such work is especially valuable given the very differen…
The Medieval in the Modern
Addressing both the debate over the “modern” nature of the German and Italian fascist regimes, and the related question of the role played by the Christian churches in making the Holocaust possible, we examine the most prominent antisemitic publications aimed at the broad public in each country: Der Stürmer in Germany and La Difesa della razza in Italy. Our study traces the heavy use of the ritual murder charge in both publications, and demonstra…
The Italian Executioners
Politics and Symbols
In the wake of the fall of the Berlin wall, and with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsing, Italian Communist Party (PCI) head Achille Occhetto shocked his party in 1989 by insisting that the PCI jettison its old name and become something new. This dramatic book tells of the ensuing struggle within the PCI, which at the time was Italy's second-largest party and the most powerful Communist party in the West. David I. Kertzer's vivid d…
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680
Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical region was integrated into a global trade system, while trade-based cities came to dominate its affairs. Its states became more centralized and absolutist, and its people adopted scriptural faiths of personal morality. The pace of these changes…
The lost cause
In one of history’s ironies, the republic that arose in Rome out of Europe’s revolutionary wave in 1848 was crushed by the new republic that had formed in France at the same time. In an additional irony, the destruction of the Roman Republic and the restoration of the papal theocracy were overseen by the internationally renowned champion of constitutional rights and freedom, Alexis de Tocqueville, then France’s foreign minister. This article shed…
Interview with Romano Prodi
The second part of 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning author David I. Kertzer's interview with the Italian political leader Romano Prodi covers the period from the fall of Prodi's first government in 1998. Starting with the causes of the 1998 crisis, the discussion follows Prodi's subsequent career as President of the European Commission (1999–2004), the introduction of the Euro, the expansion of the EU, and the attempts to introduce a new European cons…
Roma senza il Papa
Roma senza il Papa: La Repubblica romana del 1849." Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 20(4), pp. 574–575
Sport and the Shaping of Italian American Identity
Cattolici e fascisti. La Santa Sede e la politica italiana all'alba del regime (1919–1925)
Interview with Romano Prodi
On the occasion of the Conference on the State of Italy, held at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies on 29–30 October 2013, David Kertzer interviewed former two-time Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. Their focus was on the evolution of Prodi's involvement in Italian government and politics. This first in what is planned to be two such interviews examines Prodi's initial move from an economics professor at the Universi…
Maura E. Hametz. In the Name of Italy
In 1926–1927, Italy's fascist regime introduced laws aimed at changing Slavic-sounding surnames in the newly acquired Adriatic border provinces to more Italian-sounding forms. An administrative committee then prepared a list of two thousand surnames to be italianized. As a result, by 1936 100,000 people bore new Italian surnames. The area in question, around Trieste, along with the provinces further northwest around Trento and Bolzano, had come t…
Larry Wolff. Paolina's Innocence
In 1785, during the waning days of the Venetian Republic, a tribunal in Venice ordered the arrest of Gaetano Franceschini, a sixty-year-old man from a prosperous merchant family. Exactly what he was being charged with remained unclear, certainly to him, and it is the difficulty the court had in formulating the crime he might have committed that provides the main theme of Larry Wolff's book. He builds on Guido Ruggiero's pioneering work on the his…
The Roman Catholic Church, the Holocaust, and the demonization of the Jews
Following eleven years' work, in 1998 a high-level Vatican commission instituted by Pope John Paul II offered what has become the official position of the Roman Catholic Church denying any responsibility for fomenting the kind of demonization of the Jews that made the Holocaust possible. In a 2001 book, The popes against the Jews, I demonstrated that in fact the church played a major role in leading Catholics throughout Europe to view Jews as an …
The Life & Pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Between History and Controversy
Understanding Family Change and Variation
Understanding Family Change and Variation: Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action. 2011. By JENNIFER JOHNSON-HANKS, CHRISTINE BACHRACH, S. PHILIP MORGAN, and HANS-PETER KOHLER. Dordrecht: Springer
Ritual, politics, and power
Census and Identity. The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses
1. Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power David I. Kertzer and Dominique Arel 2. Racial categorization in censuses Melissa Nobles 3. Ethnic categorization in censuses: comparative observations from Israel, Canada, and the United States Calvin Goldscheider 4. Language categories in censuses: backward- or forward-looking? Dominique Arel 5. The debate on resisting identity categorization in France Alain Blum 6. On countin…
Generation as a Sociological Problem
For many millenia, in cultures around the world, the concept of has prospered. Its privileged place in Western societies is reflected in its codification in the Bible, while the most disparate societies of Africa, Asia and Australia have incorporated the generational concept in their notions of the social order. It is no surprise that the idea of should have come into prominent use in Western sociology, just as so many other terms have been preem…
Age and anthropological theory
Transitions Over the Life Course
This study examines processes of life-course transitions in 21 African age-set societies, a group of preliterate societies where age is a major organizing principle, and compares processes of transition there with those in the United States today. The analysis challenges some longheld views about the putative smooth course of passage throught the life course in "simple" societies and troubled transitions in the United States. Despite the contrast…
The Family in Italy
Aging in the Past
Politics and Symbols
In the wake of the fall of the Berlin wall, and with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsing, Italian Communist Party (PCI) head Achille Occhetto shocked his party in 1989 by insisting that the PCI jettison its old name and become something new. This dramatic book tells of the ensuing struggle within the PCI, which at the time was Italy's second-largest party and the most powerful Communist party in the West. David I. Kertzer's vivid d…
Italy’s Path to Very Low Fertility
The deep drop of the fertility rate in Italy to among the lowest in the world challenges contemporary theories of childbearing and family building. Among high-income countries, Italy was presumed to have characteristics of family values and female labor force participation that would favor higher fertility than its European neighbors to the north. We test competing economic and cultural explanations, drawing on new nationally representative, long…
An Imperfect Contraceptive Society
Italy represents an unexpected and in some ways paradoxical outcome in terms of fertility control: a drop to one of the lowest birth rates in the world has been accompanied by continuing extensive use of traditional methods despite the availability of modern contraception. Using data from 349 interviews conducted in 2005-06 in four Italian cities, we argue that Italian women commonly achieve "unplanned" and desired conceptions through the use of …
Advances in Italian and Iberian Family History
In the past decade a tremendous increase in family history research in Italy, Spain and Portugal provides new insight into family processes and has many implications for generalizations regarding the course of European family history. In this article many of these new findings are detailed and their historical and theoretical implications assessed. Previous generalizations regarding Mediterranean family history are examined in light of this new e…
Anthropology and Family History
The growing interchange between family historians and sociocultural anthropologists is part of a broader movement linking anthropology and history, which is discussed in this article. Two traditions in anthropology-one symbolic and the other social organizational-have contributed in different ways to this in terdisciplinary development. The reasons for paying greater anthropological at tention to historical materials are discussed, as are the ben…
The Making of the Modern Greek Family
The Joint Family Household Revisited
Debates about the nature and geographical distribution of complex family households in the European past continue to animate much of the work of family history. This ar ticle criticizes the common view that demographic constraints prevented the realization of com plex family forms in western Europe. It also takes issue with recent attempts to contrast a Mediterranean household system with those found in northwestern Europe and in eastern Europe. …
Theoretical Developments in the Study of Age-Group Systems
European Peasant Household Structure
Ritual
Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. Catherine Bell. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 352 pp
The social bases of declining infant mortality
Ethnology and/or Cultural Anthropology in Italy
The paper attempts to summarize the development of ethnology in Italy, from its early antecedents in past centuries to the present day, and its relation to other sciences of man as understood and organized in the country. Since 1870, the year in which the nation's political unification was completed, the unity of anthropological disciplines has been recognized in principe and reflected in the programs of learned societies, specialized museums, sc…
Making a Middle Way
Investigations into the adaptation of racially mixed people calling themselves American Indian have been confined for the most part to the Southeastern United States, where a hierarchical order of Whites and Blacks has traditionally been most explicit. Using the perspective of recent studies of ethnicity and boundary maintenance, this paper examines the "retribalization" of a similarly mixed group, pseudonymously called the Monhegans, located in …
Limits of Citizenship
Rituel et symbolisme politiques des sociétés occidentales
Kertzer David I. Rituel et symbolisme politiques des sociétés occidentales. In: L'Homme, 1992, tome 32 n°121. Anthropologie du proche. pp. 79-89
Reflections on the European Marriage Pattern
Reviewed in light of evidence from the commune of Casalecchio, the Hajnal thesis and its subsequent reformulations are shown to be in need of modification. With respect to the “Mediterranean marriage pattern” (postulated by Peter Laslett), the Casalecchio evidence shows a strong patrilocal tradition of postmarital residence but not a concomitant early female age at marriage, a large spousal gap, or a small proportion of people who never marry. Mo…
Gender Ideology and Infant Abandonment in Nineteenth-Century Italy
Gender Ideology and Infant Abandonment in Nineteenth-Century Italy Few images of Italian women are more vivid than the devoted mamma, zealously protecting her children. That image is still invoked in Italy today when people lament the decline in family values. Yet it cannot withstand historical scrutiny, as an examination of the massive dimensions of infant abandonment in Italy's past makes clear. Just over a century ago, more than 33,000 Italian…
Longitudinal Approaches to Migration in Social History
The use of data from population registers in Western Europe examine historical trends in migration back the beginning of the nineteenth century is considered. The authors attempt to show how such sources can be utilized yield rich historical detail on migration by making use of some well established demographic techniques particularly those deriving from life-table methods. The methods described are illustrated using data from the Italian town of…
Making a Middle Way
Investigations into the adaptation of racially mixed people calling themselves American Indian have been confined for the most part to the Southeastern United States, where a hierarchical order of Whites and Blacks has traditionally been most explicit. Using the perspective of recent studies of ethnicity and boundary maintenance, this paper examines the "retribalization" of a similarly mixed group, pseudonymously called the Monhegans, located in …
Politics and Ritual
Control of communal ritual can be an important aspect of political competition on the local level. The struggle for control of one such prominent sphere of community ritual-the Italian festa system-is analyzed. Focusing on a particular working-class quartiere, the competition between the Catholic Church and the Communist Party for festa supremacy is examined. It is argued that the static, functional view of ritual forms as reflecting political po…
Participation of Italian Communists in Catholic Rituals
The nature of participation of Italian Communists in the ritual of the Catholic Church is examined. Two models are presented-a normative marxist model excluding Church participation by Communists and a popular Italian model which portrays the mass of Communists as being fundamentally Catholic. Neither model is found to be satisfactory in light of the evidence from the locality under study. It is found that the great majority of the Communists con…
Studying Voluntary Associations as Adaptive Mechanisms
In this paper an attempt is made to review selected anthropological studies of voluntary associations, in particular, and common-interest associations, in general. The aim is to show how these groups have been studied as adaptive mechanisms in situations of social, cultural, and technological change, especially in those types of change involving rapid urban growth and large-scale migrations of rural populations to towns and cities. The review is …
Ethnology
Ethos, economics and "civilization" in rural Italy
Sydel Silverman. Three Bells of Civilization: The Life of an Italian Hill Town. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. xvi + 263 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $15.00
Antireligious Propaganda in the Soviet Union
Ethnology and/or Cultural Anthropology in Italy
The paper attempts to summarize the development of ethnology in Italy, from its early antecedents in past centuries to the present day, and its relation to other sciences of man as understood and organized in the country. Since 1870, the year in which the nation's political unification was completed, the unity of anthropological disciplines has been recognized in principe and reflected in the programs of learned societies, specialized museums, sc…
European Peasant Household Structure
Life and Politics in a Venetian Community
Theoretical Developments in the Study of Age-Group Systems
Transitions Over the Life Course
This study examines processes of life-course transitions in 21 African age-set societies, a group of preliterate societies where age is a major organizing principle, and compares processes of transition there with those in the United States today. The analysis challenges some longheld views about the putative smooth course of passage throught the life course in "simple" societies and troubled transitions in the United States. Despite the contrast…
Gramsci's concept of hegemony
The Broken Fountain
Paean to the City2. Fieldwork in Naples3. The Neapolitan Personal Style4. Tragedies of Fellowship and Community5. Family Life-Worlds6. The Interpretation of Family Feeling7. The Triumvirate of Want8. Reactions to a Disordered World9. Conclusion: The Poor of Naples and theWorld UnderclassEpilogue: Return to NaplesNotesAfterword: Dangerous Supplement, by Pellegrino D'Acierno and Stanislao PuglieseIndex
Comrades and Christians
Comrades and Christians
Journal Article Comrades and Christians: Religion and Political Struggle in Communist Italy, by David I. Kertzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980, xxiv + 302 pp. $24.95 (Soft cover $6.95) Get access Gianfranco Poggi Gianfranco Poggi University of Edinburgh, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 1, Spring 1981, Pages 76–77, https://doi.org/10.2307/37097…
Comrades and Christians
Patrons and Partisans
The Liberation of Evelina Zaghi
Comrades and Christians
Urban Life in Mediterranean Europe
Comrades and Christians
Generation as a Sociological Problem
For many millenia, in cultures around the world, the concept of has prospered. Its privileged place in Western societies is reflected in its codification in the Bible, while the most disparate societies of Africa, Asia and Australia have incorporated the generational concept in their notions of the social order. It is no surprise that the idea of should have come into prominent use in Western sociology, just as so many other terms have been preem…
Age and anthropological theory
The House That Giacomo Built . 1983. A film by Donald S. Pitkin and Bill Anderson
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