Annual Nashville Jewish Film Festival

The Nashville Jewish Film Festival (NJFF) is a program of the Gordon Jewish Community Center. This year, the NJFF will celebrate its 24th year of bringing educational, entertaining and thought-provoking Jewish-themed films to the Nashville community.

Schedule of Events:

7:00 PM: Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara

In 1858 Bologna, 6-year-old Edgardo Montara was seized by the authorities of the Papal State and taken away from his Jewish family because he had been secretly baptized by his babysitter without his parents' knowledge. The child would be claimed and raised as a Catholic, citing a Papal State policy that Christians must be raised by Christians. The family is given the choice to keep the child if they all convert or let the child be taken away to be raised by the Church. The parents' fight to keep their son was the center of international dispute, court cases, and publicity that directly led to the rejection of Papal rule.

Venue: Belcourt Theatre, 2102 Belcourt Ave, Nashville, TN 37212

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