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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Author: David I. Kertzer
Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to be taken to a neighbor's house, but her weeping can be ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679450313
ISBN-10: 0679450319
Publication Date: 5/6/1997
Pages: 350
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3.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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buzzby avatar reviewed The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara on + 6062 more book reviews
Should be required reading for every Christian. Except for Episcopalians, who don't understand "required." Unitarians should only have to read the nouns, since they improperly use other words as nouns.
buzzby avatar reviewed The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara on + 6062 more book reviews
Interesting story that I had never heard before. It was (hopefully) the last Christian kidnapping of this type (of which there were many), the reason it was the last was that the parents were able to get the story out, and most of Europe rose up in anger against the Pope "adopting" a boy he had kidnapped, and it basically was the key ingrediant in the downfall of the Papal States. There were a lot of characters to follow, and the story skipped around between the history of the Jews in the Papal States and this particular story, which, like many scandals, morphed into a court trial, so I had trouble following who was who.


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