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    Edgardo Levi Mortara, [a] the sixth of eight children born to Salomone "Momolo" Mortara, a Jewish merchant, and his wife Marianna ( née Padovani), was born on 27 August 1851 in Bologna, one of the Papal Legations in the far north of the pontifical state. [7] In 1850, the family had moved from the Duchy of Modena, just west of Bologna. [7]

  2. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara: The treatment of a young Jewish boy, forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th century Italy, creates a furor which pits the Papacy itself against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

  3. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. Producer Steven Spielberg reteams with Munich and Lincoln screenwriter Tony Kushner for this biographical drama based on the book by author David Kertzer, which ...

  4. Nov 17, 2023 · "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" (1862) by the 19th century German Jewish painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. Completely unknown to him, 6-year-old Edgardo Mortara had a secret. The boy was born ...

  5. Jun 30, 1998 · The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. Paperback – June 30, 1998. by David I. Kertzer (Author) 4.3 237 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...

  6. May 23, 2024 · In the film “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara,” a representative of Pope Pius IX arrives at a Jewish family’s home in Bologna, Italy, on a June night in 1858. This unsettling ...

  7. May 30, 2024 · 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 by ...

  8. Synopsis In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope's soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old ...

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  9. Father Pio Edgardo Mortara (right) with his mother Marianna, c. 1878–1890. Edgardo Levi Mortara was born on August 27, 1851, in Bologna. A few months after Edgardo’s birth, the Mortara family, who were Jewish, engaged a new servant, Anna “Nina” Morisi, an 18-year-old Catholic. In October 1857, the inquisitor of Bologna, the Dominican ...

  10. May 23, 2023 · Revered Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio is returning to Cannes with “ Kidnapped ,” a drama that reconstructs the true tale of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped and forcibly ...

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