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"The Pius XII Archives and the Jews: First Notes and Research Hypotheses"
A Panel Discussion Featuring

David Kertzer (Brown University)
Maria Chiara Rioli (Ca’ Foscari and Fordham University)
Nina Valbousquet (Ecole Française de Rome)

Moderated by:

David Gibson (Fordham University) and Magda Teter (Fordham University)

On March 4, 2019, Pope Francis announced the opening of the Pius XII archives, and on March 2, 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, the archives were finally opened - after decades of scholarly curiosity about what they contained. These archives, which contain materials from Eugenio Pacelli’s pontificate from 1939-1958, are of particular interest to those who study the history of the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel, and the Catholic Church’s involvement in both.

This panel features scholars of Catholic-Jewish history who shared their initial research findings about the documents concerning Jews carried out in these newly-opened Vatican archives, with a focus both on the role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and also on the Holy See's attitude toward the establishment of the State of Israel. Each panelist will share some of their research from the archives, and will be in dialogue with one another about their findings, and then will address questions from the audience.

David Kertzer is the Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University, where served as provost from 2006 to 2011. Among his books, "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1997, and his "The Pope and Mussolini" won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography in 2015. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2005.

Maria Chiara Rioli is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the universities of Ca’ Foscari in Venice and Fordham in New York with the REL-NET project: “Entangled Interfaith Identities and Relations from the Mediterranean to the United States: The St James Association and Its Transnational Christian-Jewish Network in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” She was previously project manager of the ERC Open Jerusalem project. Her publications include "A Liminal Church: Refugees, Conversions and the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem, 1946–1956" (Brill, 2020). Chiara's book introduction is available in Open Access here: https://brill.com/view/book/978900442...

Nina Valbousquet is a researcher at the Ecole Française de Rome working on Vatican diplomacy and Jewish organizations. Her first book was published at CNRS editions (Paris) in spring 2020: "Catholique et antisémite: Le réseau de Mgr Benigni – Rome, Europe, Etats-Unis, 1918-1934." She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Jewish History in New York (2016-2018), the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC (2018), and Fordham University (2019). Her published and forthcoming articles appear in Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (2015), Modern Italy (2018), Journal of Modern Italian Studies (2019), Archives Juives (2018), and American Jewish History (2020).

David Gibson is the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, where he came in 2017 after a long career as an award-winning religion journalist, author, and filmmaker. Gibson is the author of two books on Catholicism: "The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful are Shaping a New American Catholicism" and "The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World." He co-wrote and co-produced several documentaries on Christianity for CNN and the History Channel and co-authored a book on biblical archeology, "Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery," the basis of a popular CNN series of the same name.

Magda Teter is Professor of History and the Shvilder Chair in Judaic Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of "Jews and Heretics in Catholic Poland" (2005), "Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation" (2011), and "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth" (2020). Her work has been supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, YIVO Institute, and the Yad Ha-Nadiv Foundation. This year she is the NEH Senior Scholar at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.

This event is co-hosted between Fordham University’s Center for Jewish Studies and Ca’ Foscari University’s Department of Asian and North African Studies, and co-sponsored by Fordham’s Center on Religion and Culture. The event is part of the REL-NET project (Entangled Interfaith Identities and Relations from the Mediterranean to the United States), led by Maria Chiara Rioli. REL-NET has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 835758.