ISBN:
9780812253764
Language:
English
Pages:
298 Seiten
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Jewish culture and contexts
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.80094
Keywords:
Geschichte 1882-1902
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Europa
;
Ritualmord
;
Antisemitismus
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Strafverfahren
;
Geschichte 1882-1902
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 100 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 (1882-1883), Xanten in Germany (1891-1892), 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 to educated European elites"
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