The traditional Italian historiography of unification does not give much prominence to the Mortara case, which by the late 20th century was remembered mostly by Jewish scholars, but a 1997 study by the historian David Kertzer has marked the start of a re-examination.
The traditional Italian historiography of unification does not give much prominence to the Mortara case, which by the late 20th century was remembered mostly by Jewish scholars. But a 1997 study by the historian David Kertzer has marked the start of a re-examination.