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    It concerned the Papal States' seizure of a six-year-old boy named Edgardo Mortara from his Jewish family in Bologna, on the basis of a former servant's...
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  • Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara may refer to The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, a 1997 nonfiction book by David Kertzer The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (film)...
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  • Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, is a 2023 Italian-language historical drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, about Edgardo Mortara, a young...
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    set to film an adaptation of David I. Kertzer's The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara in early 2017, for release at the end of that year, but production...
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  • and I pray that they will." In 1870, as Don Pius Mortara, an ordained Catholic priest, Edgardo Mortara entered a monastery in Poitiers, France and later...
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  • American artist Edgardo Mortara (1851–1940), Jewish boy and a Roman Catholic priest who became the center of an international controversy Edgardo Obregón (born...
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    category for The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara 1997: National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. 2002: Mark Lynton Prize for...
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    Jewish-Italian Edgardo Mortara, who was kidnapped and forced to convert to the Catholic Church. Oscar Isaac was to have portrayed the adult Mortara in Spielberg's...
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  • Vol. 308, p. 346. Kertzer, David I (1998) [1997]. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. New York: Vintage Books. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-0-679-76817-3. Bristow...
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  • Italian-language libretto by the composer himself, inspired by The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David Kertzer. The opera was commissioned by the Dicapo Opera Theater...
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    increasingly conservative. He was responsible for the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, a 6-year-old taken by force from his Jewish family who went on to...
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  • Mortara is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edgardo Mortara (1851–1940), Italian priest, and central figure in the Mortara...
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    at least in part, the need for a unified Jewish response to the Mortara case. Mortara was an Italian Jewish boy who was secretly baptized by his family's...
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    Retrieved 5 December 2006. El na Mortara, 2015. Writing for Justice: Victor S jour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations...
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  • November 2020. Kertzer, David I. (1998) [1997]. The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-679-76817-3. McGee, Ted (5 April...
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    1897, Edgardo Mortara preached in St. Patrick's Cathedral New York City, but the Archbishop of New York told the Holy See that he opposed Mortara's efforts...
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    Still Living According to Old Customs (1833–34) The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1862) Portrait of Leopold Zunz Portrait of Fanny Hensel Five Arrows...
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  • cases, the state separated them from their families, of which the Edgardo Mortara account is one of the most widely publicized instances of acrimony...
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  • over seven years [citation needed]. His life after that is unknown. Edgardo Mortara Antisemitism History of the Jews in Italy Kidnapping Forced conversion...
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  • Automatik Entertainment and Range Media Partners The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara co-production with Universal Pictures and The Spielberg/Krieger Company...
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    Catholic layman, declared Blessed Edgardo Mortara (1851–1940), Catholic priest that was the subject of the Mortara Case during the Risorgimento Nella...
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    Aniston. It was reported in 2000 that Gray would direct and co-write Edgardo Mortara, a film based on the infamous 1858 kidnapping of the 6-year-old Jewish...
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    as the Damascus affair; to Rome in 1858 to try to free Jewish youth Edgardo Mortara, who had been seized by the Catholic Church after allegedly being baptised...
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  • Monotheism - Moral community - Moravian Church - Moriah - Mormonism - Edgardo Mortara - Moses - Mosque - Mount Sinai - Mourning - Muhammad - Multisensory...
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    Kidnapped by the Vatican? The Unpublished Memoirs of Edgardo Mortara, on the case of Eugenio Mortara, a Jewish boy who was mistakenly baptized by nuns who...
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  • The Jewish Week, April 8, 2005. Kertzer, David, "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara", Knopf, New York, 1997. Kertzer, David, "The Popes against the Jews"...
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    last outrage against the Jews of Italy was connected with the case of Edgardo Mortara, which occurred in Bologna in 1858. In 1859 most of the papal states...
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    of an orphanage for nearly forty years. In 1858, the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara in the Papal States galvanized the group to establish an orphanage...
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  • Hannah. In February 2017, Steven Spielberg cancelled The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara with The Weinstein Company after a casting setback, and consequently...
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    in favor of Jews around the world, including the attempt to rescue Edgardo Mortara, established a colony for Jews in Palestine. In 1854, his friend Judah...
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