Language:
Russian
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Корни; общественно-публицистический и культурно-просветительский журнал еврейских общин России, Украины, и других стран СНГ
Angaben zur Quelle:
7-8 (1997) 78-97
Keywords:
Blood accusation
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
A lecture delivered at the Jewish lecture hall in Nizhnii Novgorod, 1996. Argues that the ritual murder accusation originated not in the 12th century but in the Hellenistic period and continued into the Christian era. Throughout the centuries, decrees by Church authorities and monarchs condemned this libel, in Europe as well as in the Middle East, but could not stop it. In Russia, the first rumors of a blood libel emerged in the Chernihiv area in 1704. The first trial in Russia took place in Senno (Belarus) in 1799. A wave of such trials broke out in Russia's western areas in the wake of Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812. Contends that the libel was of Polish-Ukrainian origin, and the first initiators of such trials (e.g. in Grodno and Velizh) were Polish Catholics. However, in 1853 a case occurred in Saratov, southeastern Russia. In the 1880s, the blood libel re-emerged in Russia, Europe, and Turkey; many pogroms of that period were accompanied by rumors of ritual murder. There were accusations even in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods.
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