Proceedings in Relation to the Mortara Abduction. Mass Meeting at Musical Hall…Addresses by… M. M. Noah and others.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 19
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Proceedings in Relation to the Mortara Abduction. Mass Meeting at Musical Hall…Addresses by… M. M. Noah and others.

pp. 52. Original printed wrappers. Front cover starting. 8vo. Singerman 1597.

San Francisco: 1859

Est: $700 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $650
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: 1858-1859 (Cincinnati, 1957); David Kertzer, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (New York, 1997), pp. 124-2.