This title examines the ritual murder accusation (or blood libel), one of the most heinous charges against the Jews in the history of medieval antisemitism. It traces the origins to the circumstances surrounding the death of William of Norwich in 1144 and the text of the 'Life a…
"In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore disturbing signs of torture, and a story soon spread that it was a ritual murder, performed by Jews in imitation of the Crucifixion as…
Svetlana (Sveta) Grobman grew up in a communal apartment in Moscow, Russia, during the Cold War with her mother, father, and younger sister. From a very young age, she found herself living in two contradictory worlds: the private world of a Jewish family struggling to live a dec…
Essays in honor of the scholarly work and institutional leadership of Jehuda Reinharz, focusing on the role of the individual in history.
Essays in honor of the scholarly work and institutional leadership ofJehuda Reinharz, focusing on the role of the individual in history.
Essays in honor of the scholarly work and institutional leadership of Jehuda Reinharz, focusing on the role of the individual in history.
L'affaire Dreyfus est souvent décrite comme un coup de massue tombant sur le jeu politique. Or c'est la crise politique larvée qui permit à l'erreur judiciaire initiale de devenir une affaire majeure, la première tentant d'ignorer la seconde, puis la récupérant tardivement pour …
"This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul. Proceeding from the Jewish thinking that the anti-Semites oppose, David Patterson argues that anti-Semitism arises from the most ancient of temptations, the …
