Throughout history, rabbinical community leaders often had to choose between appeasing a local ruler or fighting for Jewish values. A fascinating publication I recently acquired reflects one such ...

Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies David Kertzer ’69 P’95 P’98 secured a Pulitzer Prize Monday for his biography of Pope Pius XI and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Kertzer, who served ...

This empathic and nuanced biography of Mussolini’s favoured child casts her as both villain and victim Over the course of her distinguished career, Caroline Moorehead has created an oeuvre that is ...

Historian David Kertzer won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography detailing how Benito Mussolini’s secret relationship with Pope Pius XI influenced the Italian dictator’s persecution of his country’s ...