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- The Mortara kidnapping was “almost forgotten” until the 1996 publication of David Kertzer’s book.
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3 days ago · Edgardo Mortara was just 6 years old when Italian authorities took him away from his family in 1858. Kidnapped is a true story steeped in Roman Catholic antisemitism.
Nov 17, 2023 · In 2000, when St. John Paul II (controversially) beatified Pius IX, the church historian John O’Malley, S.J., noted that the Mortara kidnapping was “almost forgotten” until the 1996 ...
3 days ago · Edgardo Mortara was just 6 years old when Italian authorities took him away from his family in 1858. Kidnapped is a true story steeped in Roman Catholic antisemitism. 'Kidnapped' tells the historical horror story of an abducted Jewish child | WKNO FM
4 days ago · That’s the case with Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, the ferocious true story of a young Jewish boy forcibly taken from his parents by emissaries of the Pope in 1858. It was made...
Apr 26, 2024 · One night in 1858, police arrived at the home of a Jewish family in Bologna, the Mortaras, and took their six-year-old son, Edgardo; authorities claimed that he was Catholic, as a maid had secretly...
May 23, 2024 · The film Kidnapped explores the case of Edgardo Mortara, a 6-year-old Jew from Bologna who was secretly baptized, taken from his family, and made a kind of ward to Pope Pius IX. The story, which Kertzer chronicled in a 1997 book, and was for a time in development with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, is realized with period aplomb by director ...
May 23, 2024 · The Mortara case — covered by the Italian author Daniele Scalise, whose book the film is based upon, and by David Kertzer, an American scholar and expert on the papacy and antisemitism ...
