

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Author: David I. Kertzer
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Unabridged: 15 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 09/06/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History
Author: David I. Kertzer
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Unabridged: 15 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 09/06/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History
David I. Kertzer was born in 1948 in New York City. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986, he has twice been awarded, in 1985 and 1990, the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best work on Italian history. He is currently Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science and a professor of anthropology and history at Brown University. He and his family live in Providence.
Stay Away from Hate In 1858, Edgardo Mortara, a 6 years old Jewish boy, has been legally kidnaped by Vatican’s orders. Why? Whilst still a baby, Edgardo Mortara has been seriously ill. So ill , that a catholic servant of the family, fearing for his soul, performed an emergency baptism. Therefore, he co......more
This book was a finalist for the National Book Award, and deservedly so. But the catch is, you probably really have to like a good history; the story is not told in straightforward, narrative style, and it isn't a novel. Parts of it read like one, but it probably isn't a book that you'll want to che......more
I've decided I simply can't read this anymore, as much as I would really like to finish it. I just can't. This book is going to be impossible for anyone to read unless you are truly a devout history reader, or if you have a very keen interest in this subject. For anyone else, it is going to be much......more
A truly fascinating tome on a part of history that is largely forgotten, I love this type of book because it educates me on a topic about which I knew nothing. A classic tipping point in history, Edgardo Mortara was a 7-year-old Jewish child who was secretly baptized by his parent's illiterate Catho......more
In reading The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David Kertzer, readers might find it difficult to not shake their heads in utter disbelief, for it elicited that reaction in me. Nominated for the National Book Award, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara tells the compelling if not disturbing true story......more
"A thrilling history... Kertzer's careful scholarship and fine narrative skill make a great drama." --Boston Globe
"A lucidly drawn, dramatic narrative. Kertzer's account reads like a courtroom drama. As shapely and surprising as fiction." --Newsday
"Brilliant... a book that has all the merits of a historical thriller." --Daily News
"Fascinating... full of rich material.... Kertzer has unearthed an evocative and unjustly forgotten episode of history." --The Washington Post Book World
"A gripping, vivid and well-documented rendering. A highly readable work that is dramatic, moving and informative, as interesting to general readers as it will no doubt prove to historians." --San Francisco Chronicle
"David Kertzer tells a riveting take, with great mastery of the sources." --The New York Review of Books
"David Kertzer's account of this extraordinary but largely forgotten moment in history is told with verve. Sounding much like a conventuonal thriller writer, Kertzer combines a gripping yarn with a details historical reconstruction." --Financial Times
"A spellbinding and intelligent book. The story itself isutterly compelling, but is entirely Kertser's skill as a historian and a writer that allows him to maintain the suspense.... Deftly constructed." --Toronto Globe and Mail
"I read the book, all of it, cover to cover, nonstop, gasping, amazed. What an important and spectacular work! (With the narrative pace of a gripping novel.) One of the most impressive reading nights of my life." --Cynthia Ozick
"A scrupulously researched, elegantly written narrative that deftly combines the take of one family's anguished and fruitless efforts to reclaim their child and the stirring saga of the Risorgimento." --The Jerusalem Report