The Mortara Case and the Literary Imagination: Jewish Melodrama and the Pleasures of Victimhood
The 1858 kidnapping of six-year-old Edgardo Mortara by officials of the Papal States in Bologna unleashed a media frenzy across Europe and North America, giving voice to widespread expressions of outrage over the overreach of the Catholic church and the anachronism of Papal rule. Jews in the German-...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2018
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2018, Volume: 108, Issue: 1, Pages: 60-84 |
| Further subjects: | B
Melodrama
B Jewish literature B Popular Culture B Mortara case |
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