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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1997)

door David I. Kertzer

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History. Nonfiction. HTML: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 heard across the city. With this terrifying sceneâ??one that would haunt this family foreverâ??David I. Kertzer begins his fascinating investigation of the dramatic kidnapping, and shows how the deep-rooted antisemitism of the Catholic Church would eventually contribute to the collapse of its temporal power in Italy.  As Edgardo's parents desperately search for a way to get their son back, they learn why heâ??out of all their eight childrenâ??was taken. Years earlier, the family's Catholic serving girl, fearful that the infant might die of an illness, had secretly baptized him (or so she claimed). Edgardo recovered, but when the story reached the Bologna Inquisitor, the result was his order for Edgardo to be seized and sent to a special monastery where Jews were converted into good Catholics. His justification in Church teachings: No Christian child could be raised by Jewish parents.  The case of Edgardo Mortara became an international cause célèbre. Although such kidnappings were not uncommon in Jewish communities across Europe, this time the political climate had changed. As news of the family's plight spread to Britain, where the Rothschilds got involved, to France, where it mobilized Napoleon III, and even to America, public opinion turned against the Vatican. The fate of this one boy came to symbolize the entire revolutionary campaign of Mazzini and Garibaldi to end the dominance of the Catholic Church and establish a modern, secular Italian state.  A riveting story which has been remarkably ignored by modern historiansâ??The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will prompt intense interest and discussion as it lays bare attitudes of the Catholic Church that would have such enormous consequences in the… (meer)
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If you only have time to read one chapter, make it the first one "The Knock at the Door." If you have time to read another chapter, make it the Epilogue at the end. Hopefully, you will feel inspired to read all the chapters in the middle. ( )
  SheldonDeVane | Mar 24, 2018 |
Heartbreaking story of Edguardo Mortara's kidnapping at age 6, and how it affected his family, the Church, European history, the Jewish community and the press. ( )
  Bookish59 | Nov 11, 2017 |
True story of the Catholic Inquisition in Italy in 1858 taking a 6 yr old boy from his Jewish family because the illiterate maid had secretly baptised him when he was sick! Stunning story told in great detail.
Read Feb 2007 ( )
  mbmackay | Dec 6, 2015 |
Sadly, my background in European history is quite deficient, so much of what was in this book I had to reread a couple of times. Even still, this is a really engrossing book; extremely well written, deftly organized, and very readable even to folks like me who have little grounding in European history (especially Italian history).

It's a sad story of a little Jewish boy (Edgardo Mortara) taken from his parents by the Catholic church because the child had supposedly been baptized by the family's Catholic servant, and their efforts to get him back. It is told against the backdrop of the turmoil surrounding the unification of Italy and backlash against Papal temporal rule in the middle part of the nineteenth century.

It highlights very well the discrimination practiced against Jews - particularly by the Catholic church - presaging what would happen to them in the 1940s.

Highly recommended! ( )
1 stem mybucketlistofbooks | Jan 10, 2015 |
The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara - David Kertzer 1997
Did the Montara story change the course of Italian and European history?

This book is about an important aspect of Jewish and Italian history.
Where a Jewish child had been baptized by a Catholic maid the church took them from their family to bring them up as Catholic. This had happened in numerous cases but with the atmosphere of the Risorgimento and after 1848 people stood up for their rights and this issue spread in the press. Bologna had been free for a period but with the help of Austrian troops reverted to being a Papal State.
The misuse of the Popes temporal power is one of the causes of Italian Independence demands. Pope Pius IX was a fundamentalist Catholic and tried fighting back against the liberal anti-religious trends.
In America it caused an anti-Catholic backlash but the President was not prepared to say anything as the US under Buchanan was on the verge of the civil war and the slavery issue.
In 1860 Covour died at the age of 50 of a heart attack at the height of his influence.
Alliances Israeli Universalle was started with a conference to do with the Montara kidnapping and its headquarters have remained in Paris since. Both Montifiori and The Rothschilds tried to intervene with the help of British and French governments,
Edgardo became a successful priest speaking 7 languages including Hebrew and died at the age of 88 in Belgium in 1940, 2 months before the Germans occupied it.
Converts like him became an embarrassment to the Jewish community.
I read about the Affair Finaly also which took place in France in 1952 it is amazing that 100 year after the Mortara experience the church had not changed ( )
  MauriceRogevMemorial | Oct 14, 2012 |
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History. Nonfiction. HTML: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 heard across the city. With this terrifying sceneâ??one that would haunt this family foreverâ??David I. Kertzer begins his fascinating investigation of the dramatic kidnapping, and shows how the deep-rooted antisemitism of the Catholic Church would eventually contribute to the collapse of its temporal power in Italy.  As Edgardo's parents desperately search for a way to get their son back, they learn why heâ??out of all their eight childrenâ??was taken. Years earlier, the family's Catholic serving girl, fearful that the infant might die of an illness, had secretly baptized him (or so she claimed). Edgardo recovered, but when the story reached the Bologna Inquisitor, the result was his order for Edgardo to be seized and sent to a special monastery where Jews were converted into good Catholics. His justification in Church teachings: No Christian child could be raised by Jewish parents.  The case of Edgardo Mortara became an international cause célèbre. Although such kidnappings were not uncommon in Jewish communities across Europe, this time the political climate had changed. As news of the family's plight spread to Britain, where the Rothschilds got involved, to France, where it mobilized Napoleon III, and even to America, public opinion turned against the Vatican. The fate of this one boy came to symbolize the entire revolutionary campaign of Mazzini and Garibaldi to end the dominance of the Catholic Church and establish a modern, secular Italian state.  A riveting story which has been remarkably ignored by modern historiansâ??The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will prompt intense interest and discussion as it lays bare attitudes of the Catholic Church that would have such enormous consequences in the

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