Author James Carroll to Discuss Religious Violence in Jerusalem

Jewish Community Co-sponsors Event at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – James Carroll, renowned syndicated columnist and author of the forthcoming release Jerusalem, Jerusalem: The Ancient City that Ignited the Modern World (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 9, 2011) will give a talk at the College of the Holy Cross, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. in Rehm Library, Smith Hall. The event, a collaboration of the Worcester JCC, Congregation Beth Israel, Temple Emanuel, Temple Sinai and the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture at Holy Cross, is free and open to the public.

Carroll, a former priest, is a leading voice on the subject of Jewish-Christian-Muslim reconciliation. His bestselling Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews — A History (Mariner Books, 2001) is part history and part memoir in exploring Jewish-Christian relations. In Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Carroll examines the nature of religious violence through history and the enigma that is Jerusalem, the holiest and most blood-soaked spot on earth.

Carroll is the author of 10 novels and six works of non-fiction. His memoir, An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us (Mariner Books, 1997), won a 1996 National Book Award. Carroll's op-ed column appears weekly in The Boston Globe, and he is a contributor to The Daily Beast. He is a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University.

Following the lecture, there will be a book signing and dessert reception.

This lecture is supported by the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts, and the Kraft-Hiatt Fund for Jewish-Christian Understanding at Holy Cross. For more information, please visit www.holycross.edu/crec.