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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807806703321

Titolo

The Blood libel legend : a casebook in anti-Semitic folklore / / editor, Alan Dundes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, 1991

ISBN

0-299-13113-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

DundesAlan

Disciplina

305.8/924

Soggetti

Blood accusation

Christianity and antisemitism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-381) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface ; Acknowledgments; Thomas of Monmouth: Detector of Ritual Murder; Little St. Hugh of Lincoln: Researches in History, Archaeology, and Legend; Little Sir Hugh: An Analysis; The Prioress's Tale; The Ritual Murder Accusation in Britain; The Hilsner Affair; The Present State of the Ritual Crime in Spain; Damascus to Kiev: Civilta Cattolica on Ritual Murder; Ritual Murder Accusations in Nineteenth-Century Egypt; Twentieth-Century Blood Libels in the United States; The Feast of Purim and the Origins of the Blood Accusation; The Blood Libel: A Motif in the History of Childhood. The Ritual Murder Accusation: The Persistence of Doubt and the Repetition CompulsionThe Ritual Murder or Blood Libel Legend: A Study of Anti-Semitic Victimization through Projective Inversion; A Selected Bibliography: Suggestions for Further Reading on the Blood Libel Legend; Index