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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

Release on 2008-12-30 | by David I. Kertzer

The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of ...

Author: David I. Kertzer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780307486714
Category: History
Page: 368
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.

Language: en
Pages: 368

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

Authors: David I. Kertzer

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-30 - Publisher: Vintage

Language: en
Pages: 352

Writing for Justice

Authors: Elna Mortara

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-22 - Publisher: Dartmouth College Press

In Writing for Justice, Elna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Sjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The

Language: en
Pages:

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Authors: Elna Mortara

Categories: Humanities

Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher:

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Language: en
Pages: 80

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara

Authors: Dara Rosen

Categories: Humanities

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-22 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

The kidnapping of Edgardo Montara captured the world's attention during 1850s and 1860s. It concerned the Papal States' seizure from a Jewish family in Bologna of one of their children, six-year-old Edgardo Mortara, on the basis of a former servant's testimony saying that she had given an emergency baptism to