Review of Gerlinde von Westphalen, Lady Abbess. Benedicta von Spiegel—Politische Ordensfrau in der NS-Zeit
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Review of Gerlinde von Westphalen, Lady Abbess. Benedicta von Spiegel—Politische Ordensfrau in der NS-Zeit. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2022. By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University In over five hundred pages, this hefty…
Review of David I. Kertzer, The Pope at War. The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Review of David I. Kertzer, The Pope at War. The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler (New York: Random House, 2022). ISBN: 978-0812989946. By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University…
Conference Report: “Let Us Solace Ourselves with Love:” Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Conference Report: “Let Us Solace Ourselves with Love:” Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN and Virtual, September 30-October 3, 2021 By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University…
Conference Report: “Synagogue and Church: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2018) Conference Report: “Synagogue and Church: The Role of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust.” The 10th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Pacific Lutheran University, November 1-3, 2017. By…
Review of Kevin P. Spicer and Martina Cucchiara, eds. and trans., The Evil that Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Review of Kevin P. Spicer and Martina Cucchiara, eds. and trans., The Evil that Surrounds Us: The WWII Memoir of Erna Becker-Kohen (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017). Pp. 161….
Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism,” Panel Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, January 6, 2017 By Jeremy Stephen Roethler, Texas State University This session…
Article Note: Martina Cucchiara, “The Bonds That Shame: Reconsidering the Foreign Exchange Trials Against the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, 1935/36”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Article Note: Martina Cucchiara, “The Bonds That Shame: Reconsidering the Foreign Exchange Trials Against the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, 1935/36,” European History Quarterly 45, no 4 (2015): 689-712. By…
Conference Report: 14th biennial Lessons & Legacies Conference
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: 14th biennial Lessons & Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna College, November 3-6, 2016, Claremont, CA By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University…
Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 18, Number 4 (December 2012) Conference Report: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust: “The Holocaust Today: New Directions in Research and Teaching,” November 1-4, 2012, Northwestern University. By Lauren Faulkner, University of Notre Dame Professor Emeritus…