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  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin  (3)
  • Center for Research on Antisemitism
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  • Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press  (3)
  • Antisemitismus  (2)
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  • 1
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    Online Resource
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812298536
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (296 p.) , 3 bw halftones
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Blurton, Heather Inventing William of Norwich
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    Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval ; Cultural Studies ; Literature ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; De vita et passione Sancti Willelmi Martyris Norwicensis ; Antisemitismus
    Abstract: William of Norwich is the name of a young boy purported to have been killed by Jews in or about 1144, thus becoming the victim of the first recorded case of such a ritual murder in Western Europe and a seminal figure in the long history of antisemitism. His story is first told in Thomas of Monmouth's The Life and Miracles of William of Norwich, a work that elaborates the bizarre allegation, invented in twelfth-century England, that Jews kidnapped Christian children and murdered them in memory and mockery of the crucifixion of Christ.In Inventing William of Norwich Heather Blurton resituates Thomas's account by offering the first full analysis of it as a specifically literary work. The second half of the twelfth century was a time of great literary innovation encompassing an efflorescence of saints' lives and historiography, as well as the emergence of vernacular romance, Blurton observes. She examines The Life and Miracles within the framework of these new textual developments and alongside innovations in liturgical and devotional practices to argue that the origin of the ritual murder accusation is imbricated as much in literary culture as it is in the realities of Christian-Jewish relations or the emergence of racially based discourses of antisemitism. Resisting the urge to interpret this first narrative of the blood libel with the hindsight knowledge of later developments, she considers only the period from about 1150-1200. In so doing, Blurton redirects critical attention away from the social and economic history of the ritual murder accusation to the textual genres and tastes that shaped its forms and themes and provided its immediate context of reception. Thomas of Monmouth's narrative in particular, and the ritual murder accusation more generally, were strongly shaped by literary convention
    Note: In English
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  • 2
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9780812298383
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 p) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kieval, Hillel J. Blood inscriptions
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    Keywords: Blood accusation History 19th century ; Jews Social conditions 19th century ; Science and law History 19th century ; Trials (Murder) History 19th century ; HISTORY / Jewish ; History ; Jewish Studies ; Religion ; Europa ; Ritualmord ; Antisemitismus ; Judenverfolgung ; Strafverfahren ; Geschichte 1882-1902
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Orthography -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. History and Place -- Chapter 2. Hungarian Beginnings -- Chapter 3. Roads to Prussia -- Chapter 4. The Hilsner Affair -- Chapter 5. The Many Trials of Konitz -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Abstract: Although the Enlightenment had seemed to bring an end to the widely held belief that Jews murdered Christian children for ritual purposes, charges of the so-called blood libel were surprisingly widespread in central and eastern Europe on either side of the turn to the twentieth century. Well over one hundred accusations were made against Jews in this period, and prosecutors and government officials in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia broke with long established precedent to bring six of these cases forward in sensational public trials. In Blood Inscriptions Hillel J. Kieval examines four cases-the prosecutions that took place at Tiszaeszlár in Hungary (1882-83), Xanten in Germany (1891-92), Polná in Austrian Bohemia (1899-1900), and Konitz, then Germany, now in Poland (1900-1902)-to consider the means by which discredited beliefs came to seem once again plausible.Kieval explores how educated elites took up the accusations of Jewish ritual murder and considers the roles played by government bureaucracies, the journalistic establishment, forensic medicine, and advanced legal practices in structuring the investigations and trials. The prosecutors, judges, forensic scientists, criminologists, and academic scholars of Judaism and other expert witnesses all worked hard to establish their epistemological authority as rationalists, Kieval contends. Far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, these ritual murder trials were in all respects a product of post-Enlightenment politics and culture. Harnessed to and disciplined by the rhetoric of modernity, they were able to proceed precisely because they were framed by the idioms of scientific discourse and rationality
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
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  • 3
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    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
    ISBN: 9781512822762
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (312 p.)
    Year of publication: 2022
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dauber, Jonathan Secrecy and esoteric writing in kabbalistic literature
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    Keywords: Cabala History ; Jewish literature History and criticism ; Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 ; Mysticism Judaism To 1500 ; History ; Secrecy in literature ; Secrecy Religious aspects ; Judaism ; RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism ; Abraham b. David ; Asher b. David ; Esotericism ; Ezra b. Solomon of Gerona ; Isaac the Blind ; Kabbalah ; Leo Strauss ; Secrecy ; anagram ; code ; literary device ; medieval Jewish history ; mysticism ; occult ; Avraham ben Daṿid mi-Posḳir ; Yitsḥaḳ Sagi Nahor 1165-1235 ; Ezra ben Solomon -1238 ; Ǎšēr ben Dāwid ; Untergrundliteratur ; Kabbala
    Abstract: Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature examines the strategies of esoteric writing that Kabbalists have used to conceal secrets in their writings, such that casual readers will only understand the surface meaning of their texts while those with greater insight will grasp the internal meaning. In addition to a broad description of esoteric writing throughout the long literary history of Kabbalah, this work analyzes kabbalistic secrecy in light of contemporary theories of secrecy. It also presents case studies of esoteric writing in the work of four of the first kabbalistic authors—Abraham ben David, Isaac the Blind, Ezra ben Solomon, and Asher ben David—and thereby helps recast our understanding of the earliest stages of kabbalistic literary history.The book will interest scholars in Jewish mysticism and Jewish philosophy, as well as those working in medieval Jewish history. Throughout, Jonathan V. Dauber has endeavored to write an accessible work that does not require extensive prior knowledge of kabbalistic thought. Accordingly, it finds points of contact between scholars of various religious traditions
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Note on Translations of Biblical Verses , Introduction. The Writing of Secrets , Chapter 1. Secrets and Secretism , Chapter 2. A Typology of Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature , Chapter 3. Abraham ben David as an Esoteric Writer , Chapter 4. Isaac the Blind’s Literary Legacy , Chapter 5. Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona as an Esoteric Writer , Chapter 6. Esotericism and Divine Unity in Asher ben David , Conclusion , Appendix 1 , Appendix 2 , Appendix 3 , Notes , Bibliography , Index , In English
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