{"id":2510,"date":"2015-12-26T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2015-12-26T20:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T19:45:27","slug":"books-writing-for-justice-in-the-name-of-edgardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/2015\/12\/26\/books-writing-for-justice-in-the-name-of-edgardo\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOKS Writing for Justice, in the Name of Edgardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2015\/12\/mortara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/files\/2015\/12\/mortara.jpg\" alt=\"mortara\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2511\" \/><\/a>By <strong>Rossella Tercatin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent book sheds new light on the story of Edgardo Mortara, the Jewish 6-year-old who was kidnapped from his family by Papal guards in 1858 and brought up Catholic in the Vatican. Authored by El\u00e8na Mortara, professor of English literature at the Universit\u00e0 di Roma Tor Vergata, as well as Edgardo\u2019s family descendant, \u201cWriting for Justice\u201d was published in the past weeks by Dartmouth College Press. The book focuses on the historical figure of Victor S\u00e9jour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. S\u00e9jour got passionate about Edgardo\u2019s case, which inspired him too write a play whose opening night in the French capital was attended by emperor Napoleon III himself. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEl\u00e8na Mortara finds S\u00e9jour, the American Creole of French culture and successful writer, the one who was capable of expressing the longing for freedom, for Jews, black people, and perhaps even women,\u201d historian Anna Foa writes in her review published in the January issue of Pagine Ebraiche. <\/p>\n<p>As already announced by Pagine Ebraiche, the vicissitudes of Edgardo Mortara got the interest of the renowned director Steven Spielberg, who is working on a project for a movie with screenwriter Tony Kushner. <\/p>\n<p>The script of the movie is based on script on the non-fiction book \u201cThe Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara\u201d by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer, who described \u201cWriting for Justice\u201d as \u201ca masterful examination of what must be one of the most intriguing figures of mid-nineteenth-century American literature, Writing for Justice reflects a refreshing transnational turn in literary study.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rossella Tercatin A recent book sheds new light on the story of Edgardo Mortara, the Jewish 6-year-old who was kidnapped from his family by Papal guards in 1858 and brought up Catholic in the Vatican. 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