Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Zagłada Żydów; studia i materiały
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2006) 426-437
Keywords:
Christianity and antisemitism
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Blood accusation
Abstract:
A lecture delivered in Rome in April 2006, at an international conference honoring the 20th anniversary of the Pope's visit to the main synagogue. Surveys blood libels in Europe from the 12th to the 20th centuries, noting that popes throughout the ages protested against these accusations, but their protests were in vain. Focuses on the situation today in Sandomierz, where three blood libels occurred: in 1628, 1698, and 1710. The priest Stefan Żuchowski (1666-1716), from Sandomierz, described the first one and initiated the other two. Żuchowski ordered murals for the Sandomierz Cathedral from a French painter, Charles de Prévot. One of them depicts the blood libel. Relates the struggle of enlightened Catholics, of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews, and other organizations with the bishop and clergymen of Sandomierz, which has been ongoing for about 20 years, to remove the mural or at least to put up a proper explanation beside the painting. However, Cathedral authorities refuse to change anything. Czajkowski is pessimistic; he concludes that the Sandomierz clergy need an enemy, even today. "The Jew", as in past centuries, has remained for them a necessary enemy.
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