Pouring Jewish Water into Fascist Wine ─ Untold Stories of Catholic Jews from the Archive of Mussolini's Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi

The aim of this project is to offer the reader a critical edition and an English translation of 139 letters that were exchanged between the victims of Mussolini’s racial laws and the Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi.

Robert Aleksander Maryks, PhD (2006) in history, Fordham University, is associate professor of history, associate director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, and editor of Jesuit Sources at Boston College. He has published on various aspects of the history of the Jesuits, including, most recently, A Companion to Ignatius of Loyola (Brill, 2014) and Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness (Brill, 2016). He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jesuit Studies, the book series Jesuit Studies, and the Boston College Jesuit Bibliography: The New Sommervogel.