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Ritual murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and beyond : new histories of an old accusation /

This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the essays rigorously engage with the larger soc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Avrutin, Eugene M. (Editor ), Dekel-Chen, Jonathan L. (Editor ), Weinberg, Robert (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond; 1 Imagined Crimes, Real Victims: Hermeneutical Witches and Jews in Early Modern Poland; 2 The Jewish Blood Libel Legend: A Folkloristic Perspective; 3 Ritual Murder in a Russian Border Town; 4 The Saratov Case as a Critical Juncture in Ritual Murder History; 5 The Blood Libel in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania: A Comparison of Two Cases; 6 Yahrzeits, Condolences, and Other Close Encounters: Neighborly Relations and Ritual Murder Trials in Germany and Austria-Hungary.
  • 7 Human Sacrifice in the Name of a Nation: The Religion of Common Blood8 The Predatory Jew and Russian Vitalism: Dostoevsky, Rozanov, and Babel; 9 Connecting the Dots: Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, and the Trial of Mendel Beilis; 10 A Half-Full Cup? Transnational Responses to the Beilis Affair; 11 Simulating Justice: The Blood Libel Case in Moscow, April 1922; 12 The Blood Libel and Its Wartime Permutations: Cannibalism in Soviet Lviv; 13 Was the Doctors' Plot a Blood Libel?; 14 The Sandomierz Paintings of Ritual Murder as Lieux de mémoire; Index.