| LC control no. | n 85221669 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mortara, Pio, 1851-1940 |
| Variant(s) | Mortara, E. (Edgardo), 1851-1940 Mortara, Edgardo, 1851-1940 Mortara, Edgardo Levi, 1851-1940 Mortara, Pio, d. 1940 מורטארה, אדגרו לוי, 1851-1940 מורטרה, אדגרו, 1851-1940 מורטירא, אדגרו, 1851-1940 |
| Birth date | 1851-08-27 |
| Death date | 1940-03-11 |
| Place of birth | Bologna (Italy) |
| Place of death | Liège (Belgium) |
| Field of activity | Catholic Church--Clergy |
| Profession or occupation | Priests |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Ori, P.D. La carrozza di San Pietro, c1983: jkt. (Edgardo Mortara) p. 7, etc. (on 6-23-1858 Jewish child of less than 6 yrs. taken by Papal police to be baptized and educated by the Church; name chgd. to Pio Mortara; d. 3-11-40 in Belgium) Wikipedia WWW, Aug. 5, 2011 (Edgardo Mortara (Bologna, in Italy, August 27, 1851-Liège, in Belgium, March 11, 1940) was a Jewish boy who became the center of an international controversy when he was kidnapped from his Jewish parents by authorities of the Papal States and raised as a Roman Catholic. He later became a Roman Catholic priest. The boy was seized after the Church authorities received a report that he had been given emergency baptism by a domestic servant during a serious infantile illness) Union for Reform Judaism WWW, Aug. 5, 2011 (under 10 minutes of Torah/350 Years of Jews in America: Isaac Feibel, a Cincinnati Jew, took the opportunity to write to Mortara and ask if it were true, as stated in Heinrich Graetz's "History of the Jews," that in adulthood Mortara "eventually learned to curse his parents and his race." Mortara wrote a long reply to Feibel, the original of which is now in the American Jewish Archives; the letter is signed: "E. Mortara") Wikipedia (Italian), viewed December 14, 2016: Caso Edgardo Mortara (Edgardo Levi Mortara ) <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso_Edgardo_Mortara> National Library of Israel database, December 14, 2016 (מורטרה, אדגרו; מורטירא, אדגרו; מורטארה, אדגרו לוי) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 84091806 |
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