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February 13, 2024

Cynthia Ozick Imagines the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara through a Relative’s Eyes

“The Story of My Family.”

In December, when Mosaic asked Cynthia Ozick to recommend some of the books she had recently read, she named, among others, David Kertzer’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, which tells the story of a six-year-old Bolognese Jew abducted and forcibly converted by papal authorities in 1858. Now, Ozick, in her most recent work of fiction, imagines seeing Mortara through the eyes of his great-nephew:

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February 13, 2024

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    “The Story of My Family.”