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Sale 2708 - Lot 115

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(JUDAICA.) Herman M. Moos. Mortara: or, The Pope and his Inquisitors, a Drama. Together with Choice Poems. 171 pages. 12mo, publisher's cloth, worn, tastefully rebacked; dampstaining, edge wear to final leaves not affecting text; inscription of 1898 Kansas collector on front flyleaf. Cincinnati, OH: Bloch & Co. Israelite Office, 1860
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Edgar Mortara was a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy who was seized from his parents by the Catholic Church in 1858 and raised as a Catholic. The case was the subject of international outrage.

The "American Israelite" newspaper reviewed this dramatization of the Mortara case in its 4 May 1860 issue: "We glory in the idea of finally seeing one of our brethren take up the pen and minister in the temple of genius." In the rear are several poems by Moos, written while living in Louisville, KY in 1858 and 1859, including a final bitter "Farewell to Louisville." Singerman 1675.

Provenance: this copy made its way to Lawrence, KS by 1898, when it was purchased by itinerant Christian preacher Josiah Henry Dockery Tomson (1837-1918).

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