Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Studies Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,1 (2005) 61-79
Keywords:
Jews History 19th century
;
Jews History
;
Antisemitism History 19th century
;
Antisemitism History 19th century
;
Blood accusation
;
Blood accusation History 19th century
;
Tiszaeszlár (Hungary)
;
Xanten (Germany)
Abstract:
Examines two ritual murder cases - in Tiszaeszlár, Hungary, in 1882-83 and in Xanten, Germany, in 1891-92. Reflects on the roles of village and city cultures in the revival of ritual murder accusations in the 1880s-90s. At the root of this wave of accusations was village (i.e. provincial or rural) culture. Big city conditions were in some ways more favorable for the defense of the accused. However, the evolution of the case, and the transformation of local knowledge into a political and legal event, was contingent not on the intervention of the city but on the attitude of the state and its eagerness to withstand superstition.
DOI:
10.1628/0944570053450752
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