Constantine’s Sword

Oren Jacoby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His Sister Rose’s Passion won Best Documentary Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination. Jacoby’s other films include James Carroll’s Constantine’s Sword, Shadowman about the early days of NY street art; On Broadway, the inside story of the reinvention of the Broadway theater; Lady ‘Ndrangheta on women in the Mafia; Elon Musk, for the series Risk Takers; Master Thief, on the ‘art heist of the century’; The Beatles Revolution; Idols of the Game with Michael Jordan; Topdog Diaries with Suzan-Lori Parks; and The Second Russian Revolution, on the fall of the Soviet Union, winner of the duPont /Columbia Gold Baton for Best Documentary Series. Oren’s documentaries have been released theatrically and on Netflix, Amazon, Apple, HBO, BBC, ABC, PBS, The New Yorker and supported by the Sundance, Tribeca, and American Film Institutes.

James Carroll is the author of twelve novels and nine works of non-fiction. For twenty-three years he published a weekly op-ed column in The Boston Globe. A former Catholic priest, his subjects have included war and peace, American politics, the reform of the Catholic Church, with a focus on the long history of Christian antisemitism. His books include An American Requiem, which won the National Book Award; House of War, a history of the Pentagon which won the PEN-Galbraith Award; and Constantine’s Sword, a classic study of Christian antisemitism which won the National Jewish Book Award. For his columns about Israel-Palestine, he received the 2008 Press for Peace & Justice Award from Americans for Peace Now, and in 2012 he was awarded the Scripps Howard Journalism Prize. James Carroll is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives in Boston with his wife, the writer Alexandra Marshall.