H[erman] M. Moos. Mortara: Or, The Pope and his Inquisitors. A Drama. Together with Choice Poems.

Estimate: $1,500–$2,000
Hammer price: $1,900

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author

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

printer

Bloch & Co, Israelite Office

Place

Cincinnati

Publication

1860

Description

First edition.

references

Singerman 1675.

summary

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).

pp. 171. Foxed, previous owner’s bookplate. Original boards, lightly rubbed. 8vo.

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