H[erman] M. Moos. Mortara: Or, The Pope and his Inquisitors. A Drama. Together with Choice Poems.
Auction 92 |
Thursday, February 18th,
2021 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Lot 176
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
H[erman] M. Moos. Mortara: Or, The Pope and his Inquisitors. A Drama. Together with Choice Poems.
Cincinnati: Bloch & Co, Israelite Office 1860
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,900
<<AN EARLY AMERICAN-JEWISH DRAMA.>>
The abduction from his home in Bologna of an Italian-Jewish six-year old boy named <<Edgardo Mortara>> and his subsequent forced conversion to Catholicism (with the connivance of Papal authority), appalled the Jewish world. The American Jewish community joined the outrage expressed by world Jewry demanding the return of the child to his parents.
See Bertram W. Korn, The American Reaction to the Mortara Case (Cincinnati, 1957).