{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2015975740","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-1757","title":"The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara","display_name":"The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara","publication_year":1997,"publication_date":"1997-11-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2015975740","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-1757","mag":"2015975740"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.5860/choice.35-1757","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-1757","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-1757","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764375719","display_name":"Choice Reviews Online","issn_l":"0009-4978","issn":["0009-4978","1523-8253","1943-5975"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316146","host_organization_name":"Association of College and Research Libraries","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316146","https://openalex.org/P4310315903"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Association of College and Research Libraries","American Library Association"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Choice Reviews Online","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"book-review","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":null,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":102,"citation_normalized_percentile":null,"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"35","issue":"03","first_page":"35","last_page":"1757"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14441","display_name":"Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity","score":0.7842000126838684,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14441","display_name":"Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity","score":0.7842000126838684,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12454","display_name":"European Political History Analysis","score":0.15440000593662262,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13763","display_name":"Historical Legal Studies and Society","score":0.01889999955892563,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/jewish-christian-relations","display_name":"Jewish-Christian relations","score":0.3840000033378601},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/catholic-inquisition","display_name":"Catholic Inquisition","score":0.5130000114440918},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/papal-states","display_name":"papal states","score":0.5540000200271606},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pope-pius-ix","display_name":"Pope Pius IX","score":0.718999981880188},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/conversion-of-jews","display_name":"conversion of Jews","score":0.492000013589859},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/jewish-emancipation","display_name":"Jewish emancipation","score":0.4480000138282776},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/italian-unification","display_name":"Italian unification","score":0.652999997138977},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/bologna","display_name":"Bologna","score":0.6269999742507935},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/rothschild-family","display_name":"Rothschild family","score":0.6629999876022339},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/moses-montefiore","display_name":"Moses Montefiore","score":0.9279999732971191},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/camillo-benso-di-cavour","display_name":"Camillo Benso di Cavour","score":0.8949999809265137},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/giuseppe-garibaldi","display_name":"Giuseppe Garibaldi","score":0.8619999885559082}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780027720","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7832608","display_name":"Tragedy (event)","level":2,"score":0.6853554248809814},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778983918","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188830","display_name":"Wife","level":2,"score":0.669536828994751},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C518914266","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1054574","display_name":"Romance","level":2,"score":0.5986701250076294},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777219063","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283086","display_name":"Servant","level":2,"score":0.5877903699874878},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.508730947971344},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C150152722","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9268","display_name":"Judaism","level":2,"score":0.5035435557365417},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.49280789494514465},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C74916050","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q841090","display_name":"Classics","level":1,"score":0.4211907386779785},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.26581478118896484},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124952713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8242","display_name":"Literature","level":1,"score":0.22706672549247742},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.19853931665420532},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C166957645","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23498","display_name":"Archaeology","level":1,"score":0.12283739447593689},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.10490286350250244},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C115903868","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80993","display_name":"Software engineering","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.5860/choice.35-1757","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-1757","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-1757","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764375719","display_name":"Choice Reviews Online","issn_l":"0009-4978","issn":["0009-4978","1523-8253","1943-5975"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316146","host_organization_name":"Association of College and Research Libraries","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316146","https://openalex.org/P4310315903"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Association of College and Research Libraries","American Library Association"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Choice Reviews Online","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16","score":0.5473999977111816,"display_name":"Peace, justice, and strong institutions"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W248773802","https://openalex.org/W37743587","https://openalex.org/W2064631991","https://openalex.org/W2498095045","https://openalex.org/W1987949506","https://openalex.org/W7019538376","https://openalex.org/W6955359301","https://openalex.org/W154361173","https://openalex.org/W1589233369","https://openalex.org/W4231820728"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0,86,178,445,511],"book":[1,512],"deserves":[2,95],"the":[3,29,37,44,101,114,149,165,169,183,186,235,240,245,248,260,268,271,296,299,309,318,321,380,383,393,396,403,416,419,425,453,462,468,471,475,481,489,494,506,517,524,533,537,545,566],"attention":[4],"of":[5,31,43,64,68,80,113,116,148,164,262,270,282,290,295,308,317,320,338,358,382,391,395,405,418,432,484,527,544,553,575],"every":[6],"scholar":[7],"interested":[8],"in":[9,72,129,194,217,259,265,333,365,379,398,402,415,450,460,477,523],"contemporary":[10],"Italian":[11,32,47,347],"historical":[12,589],"studies.":[13],"While":[14],"I":[15,83,326],"had":[16,206,237,456,464,470],"surmised":[17],"that":[18,158,199,255,502,519,529],"it":[19,35,57,160,520],"dealt":[20],"with":[21,131],"an":[22],"interesting":[23],"but":[24],"relatively":[25],"inconsequential":[26],"case":[27,322],"from":[28,239,368,438],"archives":[30],"religious":[33],"history,":[34],"is":[36,58,87,256,446,521],"most":[38,538],"gripping":[39],"and":[40,61,92,135,152,168,234,267,304,360,371,407,429,436,492,541,560,565],"informative":[41],"study":[42],"years":[45,142,211,387],"surrounding":[46],"unification":[48],"(circa":[49],"1860)":[50],"1":[51],"have":[52,84,336,587],"ever":[53],"found.":[54],"In":[55,119],"addition,":[56],"a":[59,69,75,88,110,123,214,224,253,412,430,447,485],"romantic":[60],"tragic":[62],"story":[63,350,449],"one":[65,117,163,192],"family's":[66],"loss":[67],"child,":[70],"written":[71],"as":[73,77,98,452],"engaging":[74],"style":[76],"any":[78,478],"work":[79],"social":[81,542],"history":[82,528],"encountered.":[85],"tour":[89],"de":[90],"force":[91],"more":[93],"than":[94],"its":[96],"status":[97],"finalist":[99],"for":[100,356,516,535],"National":[102],"Book":[103],"Award.":[104],"The":[105,551,563,573],"plot":[106],"seems":[107],"at":[108,157,189,501],"first":[109,287],"simple":[111],"tale":[112,254],"tragedy":[115],"family.":[118,510],"1858":[120],"Momola":[121],"Mortara,":[122],"Jewish":[124,232,427],"merchant,":[125],"was":[126,161,222,351,364,377],"living":[127],"quietly":[128],"Bologna":[130,144],"his":[132,324,369,423,443,509],"wife":[133],"Marianna":[134],"their":[136,190,200,218],"seven":[137],"children.":[138],"Though":[139,331],"only":[140],"two":[141],"hence":[143],"would":[145],"be":[146,229,499],"part":[147],"united":[150],"Italy":[151,266],"under":[153],"(relatively)":[154],"secular":[155],"rule,":[156],"time":[159,335],"still":[162],"papal":[166,263],"states,":[167],"Church":[170,469,495],"exercised":[171],"considerable":[172],"direct":[173],"control":[174],"over":[175,442],"civic":[176],"life.":[177],"became":[179],"particularly":[180],"evident":[181],"to":[182,196,243,247,343,374,400,457,473,504,508,586],"Mortaras":[184],"when":[185],"police":[187,236,434],"knocked":[188],"door,":[191],"night":[193],"June,":[195],"inform":[197],"them":[198],"six":[201],"year":[202],"old":[203],"son":[204],"Edgardo":[205,339,362,410,576],"been":[207],"secretly":[208],"baptized":[209],"several":[210,293,439],"earlier":[212,388],"by":[213,231,389],"former":[215],"servant":[216],"house.":[219],"Since":[220],"he":[221,226],"now":[223],"Catholic,":[225],"could":[227,496],"not":[228],"raised":[230],"parents,":[233,424],"instructions":[238],"local":[241],"Inquisitor":[242],"bring":[244],"child":[246,476],"Inquisition":[249],"offices.":[250],"Thus":[251],"begins":[252],"eventually":[257],"implicated":[258],"decimation":[261],"power":[264],"formation":[269],"liberal":[272],"state.":[273],"It":[274],"directly":[275],"involves":[276],"Pope":[277],"Pius":[278],"IX,":[279],"Napoleon":[280],"III":[281],"France,":[283],"Camillo":[284],"Cavour":[285],"(the":[286],"prime":[288],"minister":[289],"unified":[291],"Italy),":[292],"members":[294],"Rothschild":[297],"family,":[298],"British":[300],"Sir":[301],"Moses":[302],"Montefiore,":[303],"other":[305],"elite":[306],"figures":[307],"nineteenth":[310],"century.":[311],"Giuseppe":[312],"Garibaldi":[313],"even":[314],"wrote":[315],"some":[316],"details":[319],"into":[323],"novel,":[325],"mille":[327],"(1982":[328],"[19331,":[329],"Cappelli).":[330],"few":[332,346],"our":[334],"heard":[337],"Mortara":[340,363,577],"(including,":[341],"according":[342],"Kertzer,":[344],"surprisingly":[345],"historians),":[348],"this":[349],"front-page":[352],"news":[353],"throughout":[354],"Europe":[355],"much":[357],"1859":[359],"1860.":[361],"fact":[366,461,518],"removed":[367],"home":[370],"taken":[372,465],"off":[373],"Rome.":[375],"He":[376],"placed":[378],"House":[381],"Catechumens,":[384],"established":[385],"300":[386],"Ignatius":[390],"Loyola,":[392],"founder":[394],"Jesuits,":[397],"order":[399],"aid":[401],"conversion":[404],"Jews":[406],"Muslims.":[408],"There":[409],"began":[411],"long":[413],"stay":[414],"arms":[417],"Catholic":[420],"Church,":[421],"while":[422],"international":[426],"community,":[428],"variety":[431],"judges,":[433],"officials,":[435],"diplomats":[437],"countries":[440],"struggled":[441],"fate.":[444],"detective":[448],"part,":[451],"legal":[454],"authorities":[455],"decide":[458],"whether":[459,467,480,493],"baptism":[463],"place,":[466],"right":[472],"seize":[474],"case,":[479],"subsequent":[482],"establishment":[483],"new":[486],"state":[487],"invalidated":[488],"Church's":[490],"actions,":[491],"or":[497],"should":[498],"required":[500],"point":[503],"return":[505,552],"boy":[507],"provides":[513],"further":[514],"evidence":[515],"often":[522],"apparent":[525],"asides":[526],"good":[530],"historians":[531],"find":[532],"material":[534],"unraveling":[536],"important":[539],"political":[540],"events":[543,579],"time.":[546],"Like":[547],"Natalie":[548],"Zemon":[549],"Davis'":[550],"Martin":[554],"Guerre":[555],"(1983,":[556],"Harvard":[557],"University":[558,571],"Press)":[559],"Carlo":[561],"Ginzburg's":[562],"cheese":[564],"worms":[567],"(1980,":[568],"Johns":[569],"Hopkins":[570],"Press),":[572],"kidnapping":[574],"takes":[578],"that,":[580],"though":[581],"perhaps":[582],"extraordinary,":[583],"seem":[584],"unlikely":[585],"lasting":[588],"significance.":[590],"\u2026":[591]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":14},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":5}],"updated_date":"2026-08-27T14:10:00.468798","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}