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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]
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.
- Drama, History
- 3 min
- Tony Kushner, David I. Kertzer
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 ...
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 ...
Kidnapped (2023 film) Kidnapped. (2023 film) Kidnapped ( Italian: Rapito) is a 2023 Italian-language historical drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, about Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was taken from his family by the Papal States and raised as a Catholic. It is loosely based on Daniele Scalise's book Il caso ...
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 ...
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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 ...
