Henry Abramson | The Mortara Affair and the Jews of Bologna, Italy @HenryAbramsonPhD | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 days ago.
A brief description of the terrible kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara in 1858.

Sources mentioned in this video:

David Kertzer, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
amazon.com/Kidnapping-Edgardo-Mortara-David-Kertzer/dp/0679768173

theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/edgardo-mortara-doctored-memoir/554948

Vittorio Messori, Kidnapped by the Vatican? amazon.com/Kidnapped-Vatican-Unpublished-Memoirs-Edgardo/dp/1621641988/ref=sr_1_1?crid=V3XS3B4C2OJY&keywords=kidnapped+by+the+vatican&qid=1661367880&s=books&sprefix=kidnapped+by+the+vatican%2Cstripbooks%2C56&sr=1-1
Italian: amazon.com/bambino-Memoriale-inedito-protagonista-Mortara/dp/8804545313/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SXKL8UIUWMEW&keywords=Vittorio+messori+ebreo&qid=1661367938&s=books&sprefix=vittorio+messori+ebreo%2Cstripbooks%2C56&sr=1-1

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