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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... Jewish community , immersed in the city's famed trade and commerce . Eleven syna- gogues dotted the central quarter , where most of the city's eight hundred Jews lived . Hebrew book printers and famed Jewish scholars complemented ...
... Jewish community , immersed in the city's famed trade and commerce . Eleven syna- gogues dotted the central quarter , where most of the city's eight hundred Jews lived . Hebrew book printers and famed Jewish scholars complemented ...
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... Jewish Cemetery of Bologna as a gift to the nuns of the convent of Saint Peter the Martyr, telling them “to destroy all graves ... of the Jews . . . and to take the inscriptions, the memorials, the marble gravestones, destroying them ...
... Jewish Cemetery of Bologna as a gift to the nuns of the convent of Saint Peter the Martyr, telling them “to destroy all graves ... of the Jews . . . and to take the inscriptions, the memorials, the marble gravestones, destroying them ...
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... Jewish communities, and it was from these that Edgardo Mortara's family came. In 1858, Bologna, unofficial capital of the pontifical state's northern territories, known as the Legations, was ruled by Pope Pius IX. Modena and Reggio lay ...
... Jewish communities, and it was from these that Edgardo Mortara's family came. In 1858, Bologna, unofficial capital of the pontifical state's northern territories, known as the Legations, was ruled by Pope Pius IX. Modena and Reggio lay ...
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... Jewish, not only because this was required by Jewish law but because marriage of a Jew to a Christian was forbidden by the state as well. A woman moved to her husband's home upon marriage. Momolo's grandfather married a woman from ...
... Jewish, not only because this was required by Jewish law but because marriage of a Jew to a Christian was forbidden by the state as well. A woman moved to her husband's home upon marriage. Momolo's grandfather married a woman from ...
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... Jewish kin . As Vicini put it in his 154 - page analysis of the case , the central issue was " whether the baptism of a member of a Jewish family dissolves the ties of kin and of blood that he has with the members of his family who ...
... Jewish kin . As Vicini put it in his 154 - page analysis of the case , the central issue was " whether the baptism of a member of a Jewish family dissolves the ties of kin and of blood that he has with the members of his family who ...
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