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B’nai Israel Book Discussion Group: The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David Kertzer

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 11 Cheshvan 5785

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

A National Book Award Finalist

This extraordinary story tells how the Vatican’s imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the Popes’ worldly power in Italy. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly “baptized” by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed.

This book reads as a historical thriller and authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.

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