Author: Hillel J. Kieval
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812298381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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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 one hundred 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 (1882-83), Xanten in Germany (1891-92), 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. Kieval explores how educated elites took up the accusations of Jewish ritual murder and considers the roles played by government bureaucracies, the journalistic establishment, forensic medicine, and advanced legal practices in structuring the investigations and trials. The prosecutors, judges, forensic scientists, criminologists, and academic scholars of Judaism and other expert witnesses all worked hard to establish their epistemological authority as rationalists, Kieval contends. Far from being a throwback to the Middle Ages, these ritual murder trials were in all respects a product of post-Enlightenment politics and culture. Harnessed to and disciplined by the rhetoric of modernity, they were able to proceed precisely because they were framed by the idioms of scientific discourse and rationality.

Author: George Aaron Barton
Publisher:
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Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Roseanna M. White
Publisher: WhiteFire Publishing
ISBN: 0976544407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Author: Ahmad Al-Jallad
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004400427
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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A dictionary of the Safaitic inscriptions, containing more than 1400 lemmata.

Author: Silvester Tissington
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382331330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Elissa Bemporad
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190466456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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In Legacy of Blood, Elissa Bemporad traces the legacies of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism-pogroms and blood libels-in the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the early 1960s. By exploring the phenomenon and the memory of anti-Jewish violence under the Bolsheviks, this book sheds light on the changing position of Jews in Stalinist society.

Author: Silvester Tissington
Publisher:
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Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Author: B. G. Niebuhr
Publisher: London : Taylor, Walton, Maberly
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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