Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry
Angaben zur Quelle:
22 (2010) 47-67
Keywords:
Grotius, Hugo,
;
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Jews
;
Blood accusation
Abstract:
Corrects a mistake made by professor Stanisław Kot in his article "Hugo Grotius a Polska w 300-lecia dzieła o prawie wojny i pokoju", originally published in "Reformacya w Polsce" [sic!] in 1926. In the letters sent by Jerzy (Georg) von Słupecki to Hugo Grotius, two different blood libel trials held in Lublin in 1636 are mentioned, rather than one. At the first trial three Jews were charged with murdering a child. At the second trial a Jewish surgeon was accused of taking blood from a Christian monk; however, the first affair was mentioned also at the investigation preceding the second trial. Słupecki did not believe in the legend of ritual murder. Hugo Grotius's answer was ambivalent: he wrote that the Jews were not totally free of guilt, but their murders of Christians had no ritual character, and that the judges should not have resorted to torture of the accused. Pp. 51-67 contain excerpts from the investigations of both affairs and the texts of two letters, Słupecki's letter to Grotius and Grotius's reply.
Note:
Appeared previously in German as "Hugo Grotius und die Ritualmordprozesse in Lublin (1636)" in "Festschrift zu Simon Dubnows siebzigstem Geburtstag" (1930) 87-112.
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