Holocaust historian Father P. Kevin Spicer, CSC, Ph.D., will be speaking in the Milwaukee area on the topic “Catholics, Nazis, Jews: The Complexity of History.”
He will give this presentation on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2 p.m., at the Sacred Heart School of Theology, 7335 S. Highway 100 in Franklin. His appearance is sponsored by the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center and the Lux Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at the Sacred Heart School of Theology.
This lecture examines the often contradictory statements and actions of the approximately 26,000 diocesan and religious priests in Germany during World War II, in an effort to gain greater understanding of the role Christian anti-Semitism played in the response and lack-of-response of Catholic churchmen to the persecution and murder of European Jews.
Spicer is the James J. Kenneally Distinguished Professor of History at Stonehill College in Boston , Mass. He is the author of “Hitler’s Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism” (2008) and“Resisting the Third Reich: The Catholic Clergy in Hitler’s Berlin” (2004), and the editor of “Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and The Holocaust” (2007).
While admission to this program is free, it also constitutes part of the Holocaust Study Institute, a full semester course offered by the Lux Center and HERC. The institute offers a trip to Israel tentatively scheduled for July 29-Aug. 11. Participation in the course is not required for participation in the trip.
For more information, contact Bonnie Shafrin at HERC, 414-963-2719 or bonnies@milwaukeejewish.org.
HERC is a program of the Coalition for Jewish Learning, the education program of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.
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