The Kidnapping of Edgardo MortaraKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008 M12 30 - 368 páginas 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. |
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... Christianity— History—19th century. 3. Converts from Judaism—Italy—Bologna–Biography. I. Title. DS135.19M595 1997 945'.o.o.4924—dc2l 96-39159 CIP Vintage ISBN: 0-679-76817-3 Book design by Cassandra Pappas Random House Web address: www ...
... Christianity— History—19th century. 3. Converts from Judaism—Italy—Bologna–Biography. I. Title. DS135.19M595 1997 945'.o.o.4924—dc2l 96-39159 CIP Vintage ISBN: 0-679-76817-3 Book design by Cassandra Pappas Random House Web address: www ...
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... Christian was allowed in their homes; theirs was a society apart. Still, life in the ghetto had its joys and consolations. There the Jews had a rich communal life, their own institutions, their own synagogues, rabbis, and leaders, their ...
... Christian was allowed in their homes; theirs was a society apart. Still, life in the ghetto had its joys and consolations. There the Jews had a rich communal life, their own institutions, their own synagogues, rabbis, and leaders, their ...
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... Christian Europe. For Bologna's Jews, the result was catastrophic. In 1553, their Hebrew books, including hundreds of copies of the sacred Talmud, were publicly. B. ologna la grassa, Bologna la dotta—Bologna the fat, Bologna the burned by ...
... Christian Europe. For Bologna's Jews, the result was catastrophic. In 1553, their Hebrew books, including hundreds of copies of the sacred Talmud, were publicly. B. ologna la grassa, Bologna la dotta—Bologna the fat, Bologna the burned by ...
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... Christian love and thus tolerated living in our midst, show such ingratitude toward the Christians.” No more would the Jews be allowed to mingle with the Christians; they were to be shut up into ghettoes." Scarcely had they begun to ...
... Christian love and thus tolerated living in our midst, show such ingratitude toward the Christians.” No more would the Jews be allowed to mingle with the Christians; they were to be shut up into ghettoes." Scarcely had they begun to ...
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... Christians were forbidden to venture into the ghetto after dark, nor could they work as servants for Jewish families. On the other hand, Christians were warned not to harass the Jews or make fun of them. This was especially a problem in ...
... Christians were forbidden to venture into the ghetto after dark, nor could they work as servants for Jewish families. On the other hand, Christians were warned not to harass the Jews or make fun of them. This was especially a problem in ...
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