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Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay discusses the historical context of well poisoning accusations against Jews and minorities in Medieval Europe.
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minorities in medieval Europe 1321 to 1422 published by Penn University press and we'll be discussing this book and how it relates to the black death and accusations against Jews and other minorities so thank you uh Dr braila for joining me uh thank you for having me good evening so let's start off tell the listeners a little bit about yourself and your background so uh I started my way uh at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the department of General history uh and I did my PhD at Columbia University with I did my PhD at Columbia University with Professor Adam Costo and professor alisheva carach and um I I didn't start as a Jewish historian I started as a general historian or a historian of medieval Europe and um the more I got into the field uh the more I understood that um looking at Jews more carefully can allow me to see all kind kinds of um deeper layers of General uh Society uh when you layers of General uh Society uh when you look at the dynamic between minorities and the majority um Jews being one of the minorities of medieval Society you you can understand many of the social phenomenon that are going on and uh since I finished my uh my PhD in 2016 I came back to Israel I spent some time at the Hebrew University again and then uh at Boran University in beeva and now I'm at Kaa as you said and I over the past six years my work I think has
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- 1:02minorities in medieval Europe 1321 to 1422 published by Penn University press and we'll be discussing…
- 6:44somewhat familiar some just are familiar with the black death the plague um you know when…
- 12:28persecute them I should say um so first of all well posi accusations didn't start with…
- 18:09little detail they didn't drank from the public uh water Hole uh on uh on uh…
- 23:54people in the Middle Ages um were not necessarily um unsophisticated about uh verifying what they…
- 29:33manipulated because their neighbor or family member already confessed and it was easier uh to force…
- 35:13crime they uh portrayed the story with the Jews as some kind as as kind of…
- 40:55Christ so with blood Lial you have a a child who's innocent and like uh Christ…
- 46:38city ratifies this decision and every one of the local Nobles sign uh uh sign his…
- 52:21um the the accusation after after uh the first outbreak of the abductive um they they…
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