The IDF’s Remarkable Success against Hamas
While reducing its own casualties and those of Palestinian civilians.
February 13, 2024
“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:
While reducing its own casualties and those of Palestinian civilians.
And won’t satisfy enemies of the Jewish state.
Exporting hatred of Jews, and arms.
Decrees of Christian emperors and declining knowledge of Hebrew.
“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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